{"id":25281,"date":"2025-07-26T14:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/25281\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T14:47:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:47:22","slug":"man-fined-for-fly-tipping-bus-fridge-and-other-parts-in-cornwall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/25281\/","title":{"rendered":"Man fined for fly-tipping bus fridge and other parts in Cornwall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A man has been fined \u00a31,000 for dumping bus parts in a lay-by in west Cornwall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The man, from the Redruth area, had recently bought the bus and removed several parts, including a fridge, seats and cushions, before dumping them, Cornwall Council said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">He was issued with a fixed penalty notice after a council employee spotted him doing it and alerted the police, it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Councillor Thalia Marrington said: &#8220;Cornwall is such a beautiful part of the world and we must all play our part in keeping it that way &#8211; there is no excuse for fly-tipping.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Marrington said the council would &#8220;do our best to track down those responsible&#8221; for  fly-tipping or littering where there was evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">In a separate incident, a woman in Newquay received a \u00a3500 fixed penalty notice for fly-tipping after she was caught on CCTV dumping garden waste in a children&#8217;s play park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The footage showed the woman looking around to see if anyone was watching before making several trips to the play area to dump the waste.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Both fines had been paid in full, the council said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been fined \u00a31,000 for dumping bus parts in a lay-by in west Cornwall. The man,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-25281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}