Two men have been arrested in connection with a huge fly tip that appeared in a field in Oxfordshire, leaving behind a mountain of waste weighing around 21,000 tonnes and stretching some 500 feet in length.
The illegal dump, near Kidlington, has sparked widespread anger and is expected to cost the Environment Agency about £10 million to clear. On Thursday, the agency confirmed that a 69 year old man was arrested at a property in Andover in Hampshire, while a second man aged 54 was arrested in Slough. Both are suspected of environmental offences and money laundering linked to the giant tip.
