The Beswick resident was caught out after dumping their unwanted items on Limebank Street - and hit with a £640 fine
A city centre resident has suffered a hefty fine after a shocking fly-tipping incident. The Beswick resident was caught out after dumping their unwanted items on Limebank Street - and hit with a £640 fine.
Manchester City Council hit out at the resident on Twitter, posting a picture of the fly-tipping alongside a reminder of how residents can use the council website to correctly dispose of waste. READ MORE: Dad thirteen times the drug-driving limit killed his son, 8, after BMW aquaplaned on M60 "Following a flytipping incident on Limebank Street in Beswick a resident has been fined a total of £640," the council wrote.Beswick isn't the only place seeing a fly-tipping problem. Figures from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs reveal nearly 310,000 incidents of fly-tipping were recorded by councils across the North in 2020/21 - the equivalent of 35 every hour. That’s up 15% from fewer than 270,000 reports of illegally-dumped rubbish in 2019/20.
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