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Plymouth City Council fined £8000 for WEEE breach

Plymouth City Council has been fined £8,000 for allowing unauthorised firms to remove and sell unwanted computers from its waste plants. The council breached the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE) by letting firms take computers and other electronic items without checking that they were bona fide recyclers. The Environment Agency took the council [...]

Parking warden issued over 9000 tickets in one year

In just one year, a civil enforcement officer in Lambeth, London handed out an astonishing 9,141 tickets. Further information obtained by the Streatham Guardian shows an amazing 247,650 penalty charges notices were issued by Lambeth Council between 1 November 2008 and 31 October 2009. The information request also revealed 15,481 driving fines were handed out [...]

Council Taxpayers face fixed penalties for excess Christmas rubbish

Council Taxpayers in Northampton are incensed with their Council’s warning that any resident who leaves out too much refuse over the Christmas holidays may be fined for fly tipping. Householders, some of whom who will not have their refuse collected for several weeks, may face fines of £100 if surplus rubbish is left outside of [...]