{"id":518013,"date":"2026-04-07T17:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518013\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:46:08","slug":"stonehenge-fly-tipper-fined-2k-for-irresponsible-disposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518013\/","title":{"rendered":"Stonehenge fly-tipper fined \u00a32k for &#8216;irresponsible&#8217; disposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A fly-tipper has been fined \u00a32,000 for illegally dumping waste less than two miles from the nearest household recycling centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wiltshire Council&#8217;s environmental enforcement officers captured the resident on CCTV in January, disposing of the waste around Tidworth and the Stonehenge area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tLKothcg4AI\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The captured footage, external<\/a> clearly showed the person&#8217;s face, vehicle registration, and the disposal of multiple items, including black bags of household waste and chairs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Martin Smith said: &#8220;Choosing instead to dump waste is irresponsible, damages our environment, and leaves others to deal with the consequences&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fly-tipper has been fined \u00a32,000 for illegally dumping waste less than two miles from the nearest household&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-518013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518013","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=518013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}