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Calls for tougher fly-tipping penalties after man fined for dumping waste at country estate near Perth

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Perthshire countryside. Frank Smith, the newly-elected representative for Almond and Earn on Perth and Kinross Council, was speaking after a man was fined £1500 for flagrantly flouting the 1990 Environmental Protection Act.

Perth Sheriff Court was told last week that 12 tonnes of soil and assorted garden waste were seen being dumped on a country estate near Perth - and the witness was then offered £450 to “turn a blind eye.” But the public-spirited man refused - and instead took photographs of the person guiding the lorry driver, as well as the vehicle, which had Matthew Bros.

emblazoned on the side.Ironically, the firm, which has been trading on Kirkcaldy’s Hayfield Industrial Estate for over 25 years, is a member of the Fife Trusted.

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