{"id":418492,"date":"2026-02-10T18:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T18:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418492\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T18:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T18:51:08","slug":"nearly-6500-fly-tipping-cases-in-middlesbrough-in-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418492\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 6,500 fly-tipping cases in Middlesbrough in last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A local authority has received nearly 6,500 reports of fly-tipping over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Middlesbrough Council has secured eight court prosecutions and issued 87 fixed penalty notices for environmental crime related offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Independent councillor Joan McTigue said it was becoming &#8220;a weekly event&#8221; in her Longlands and Beechwood ward and said she hoped the culprits were caught.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ian Blades, executive member for neighbourhoods, said &#8220;fly-tipping is lazy and anti-social and can blight entire neighbourhoods&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A local authority has received nearly 6,500 reports of fly-tipping over the past 12 months. Middlesbrough Council has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-418492","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\/418492","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=418492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}