Woman order to pay more than £500 for fly-tipping one bag of rubbish

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A woman taken to court by a council will have to pay more than £500 for dumping a single rubbish bag on a Stalybridge road. Tameside council prosecuted a Mossley resident after she failed to pay a fixed penalty notice for littering.

Enforcement officers had traced a back of household waste which was found dumped on Huddersfield Road on February 8 back to Isabelle Driscoll.

The council said she ‘ignored’ numerous opportunities to pay the £80 fixed penalty notice, which had been served under section 87 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, resulting in the town hall launching prosecution proceedings. READ MORE:Wythenshawe town centre set for major £20m regeneration, council announces after taking on lease Ms Driscoll pleaded guilty in Tameside Magistrates Court to littering.

She will have to pay the £80 fine and and magistrates ordered her to pay an additional £490 in costs following the court hearing.