{"id":9217,"date":"2025-07-19T23:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T23:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/9217\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T23:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T23:44:14","slug":"secret-cctv-used-to-catch-fly-tippers-who-are-blighting-rural-lanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/9217\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret CCTV used to catch fly-tippers who are &#8216;blighting&#8217; rural lanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man who claimed to forget his rubbish after taking a cigarette break in the dark is among the residents issued with hefty fines for fly-tipping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The man from Warminster had to pay \u00a31,000 after removing the bags from his car and leaving them behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wiltshire Council used covert CCTV to catch offenders as part of a new crackdown on the crime. Among those fined were three people who were ordered to pay \u00a33,000 after dumping waste on a rural lane in Royal Wootton Bassett.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Martin Smith, cabinet member for highways, street scene and flooding, said fly-tipping &#8220;is a blight on our beautiful Wiltshire landscapes&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who claimed to forget his rubbish after taking a cigarette break in the dark is among&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-9217","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\/9217","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=9217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}