Flytipper's excuse: 'I can't go to the tip - I've got cancer'
Published:
10:55 AM July 30, 2009
Updated:
11:09 AM November 7, 2020
FLY tippers have struck again on land owned by the Combe Estate.
FLY tippers have struck again on land owned by the Combe Estate.
A disgusted resident took this photograph of household rubbish, which was left in a heap on Gittisham Common.
The pile partially blocked the entrance to a popular woodland walk.
A member of the public told the Herald he had personally challenged some fly tippers.
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"They even dump rubbish in broad daylight," he said.
"One man's excuse was that he had cancer.
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"There is a recycling centre not that far away and there is no excuse.
