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Farmer fined after digestate spill kills one thousand fish

A Cornish farmer has been told to pay out 拢3,765 after a spill of digestate at his farm led to a fish kill in the River Ottery

Alex Black
Deputy Editor
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Farmer fined after digestate spill kills one thousand fish

Truro Magistrates Court heard that Norman Osborne, 57, of Tobarn, Jacobstow, operated a farm near Warbstow, which was the site of a major fish kill incident in 2022. Following Wednesday's hearing Osborne...

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