A woman taken to court by a council will have to pay more than £500 for dumping a single rubbish bag on a Stalybridge road.
Tameside council prosecuted a Mossley resident after she failed to pay a fixed penalty notice for littering. Enforcement officers had traced a back of household waste which was found dumped on Huddersfield Road on February 8 back to Isabelle Driscoll.
The council said she ‘ignored’ numerous opportunities to pay the £80 fixed penalty notice, which had been served under section 87 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, resulting in the town hall launching prosecution proceedings.
