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Fly-tipping has increased by 50% in the last six years, prompting councils to call for much bigger penalties for offenders.More than a million incidents of illegal rubbish dumping were recorded in the financial year 2018-19, w stanley cup hich cost councils 拢58m to clean up. Most incidents involved household waste being jettisoned from cars or vans by the side of a road.The maximum fine for fly-tipping is 拢50,000 and/or a five-year prison sentence. But 83% of the court-imposed fines in the last six years were below 拢500. Only two people have been given the maximum fine since new guidelines were introduced in 2014.Councils are handing out more on-the-spot fines and pursuing more prosecutions. Offending vehicles can be seized and in some cases are crushed. The number seized jumped to 207 last year. However, councils have lost 60% of their central government funding since 2010, meaning less money is available for action against fly-tippers. Fly-tipping is not only an illegal, inexcusable and ugly blight on society, it is a serious public health risk, said David Renard, the environment spokesman for the Local Government Association and leader of Swindon borough council. Councils are determined to cr stanley cup ac stanley cups k down on the problem. However, tougher sentences are needed to act as a stronger deterrent to criminals dumping waste. This is why we want to work with the government on reviewing sentencing guidelines for fly-tipping, so offenders are given bigger fines for more serious offences, and ensure c Bply Former Bosnian president Ejup Ganic fights extradition from UK
Fran莽ois Hollande has been accused of betraying the values of the left and the French Republic by pressing ahead with plans to strip French citizenship from dual-nationality citizens who are convicted of terrorism.Th stanley cup e threat to revoke nationality was a central plank of the French presidents hardline war speech to a joint session of parliament in Versailles days after the Paris attacks in November.It has proved popular with the public 鈥?one poll last month showed that 94% of French people approved of the proposal. But Ho stanley canada llandes critics say the measure would have little practical effect in dissuading terrorists and risks stigmatising people further by creating the symbolic idea of a two-tier French state where certain citizens are worth more than others.This week it was thought that the measure had been abandoned amid fierce criticism from historians and commentators and dissent within the Socialist party. But on Wednesday the Socialist prime minister, Manuel Valls, announced that the government would press on, saying the measure was a heavy sanction that could legitimately be used against those who betrayed the state by taking up arms against fellow citizens. It will now be debated in February.French prime minister promises action to tackle danger of Front NationalRead moreJacques Toubon, a former centre-right justice minister who is now the French constitutional ombudsman for citizens rights, warned ag stanley espana ainst a fundamental division of French people into two categories, |
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