Feb
3
Arrests Made on a Skip Hire Firm
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A raid was made by the police on Porter Skip Hire in Christian Malford and four men got arrested. This was part of Operation Herald that has been conducted to crackdown metal thefts across Wiltshire. The police hit four scrap yards during this operation.
The police was working along with representatives [...]
Jan
28
Skip Firm Fined £20,000 for Illegal Storing of Waste on the Clee Hill
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The Environment Agency told the court that GR Shorthouse Ltd, located at Doddington Heights on Titterstone Clee Hill, had been keeping waste in skips as well as on the ground at the firm’s Clee Hill site. This is on the edge of Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The [...]
Jan
20
Former Skip Hire Boss Fined £2,500 for Running an Illegal Waste Site
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The former director of a skip hire company who had been running an illegal waste site for quite some time has been ordered by the court to pay more than £2,500.
The skip hire firm of Kenneth John Harrison had been involved in storing and sorting skips of plastics, toys and [...]
Jan
13
Two waste management companies, based in Barnsley, have been fined £10,000 each for waste crimes. They have been involved in repeated incidents of waste burning and are charged for breaching an environmental permit.
The two companies have been running skip hire services involving sorting of mixed waste at a single premises [...]
Jan
6
A Pensioner to Face Imprisonment for Illegal Waste Management
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Robert Nicholas Byard, 65, has to face 20 months in prison after he has been found guilty of various waste crimes he has been involved in for the past two years. The court has also ordered Byard to pay a sum of £53,949 in terms of costs to the Environment Agency.
Prosecutor [...]
Dec
30
Skip Hire Firm To Be Wound Up
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Despite all the controversy about tax payment, the owner of a skip hire company is confident that the business will keep running and not wind up after being presented with the order by the taxman.
Anthony Shepherd is the owner of Albert Hill Skip Hire, a company based in Darlington. He [...]
Dec
24
The court has ordered a year’s suspended sentence to a skip hire firm owner. He has been found involved in illegal dumping of waste materials that has given him financial benefits of £1.5m.
Approximately 29,000 tonnes of waste, which mainly consisted of construction waste, was dumped by William O’Grady at two [...]
Dec
16
Skip Hire Boss Warned of Jail Sentence
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After being found guilty of illegal waste management, a skip hire boss has been given a warning of a possible jail sentence. The Environment Agency found illegal waste dumped on farmland by this skip hire firm and warned the boss two weeks earlier of the consequences.
William Matthew O’Grady, and his [...]
Dec
8
Owners of a Southport skip hire company, based on Crowland Street, have been fined for fly-tipping after a skip was found emptied on the road, leaving an “unsightly mess”. Those charged, however, are disputing the case against them.
The Preston Magistrates Court has ordered the company to pay a fine of [...]
Dec
3
Director of a Skip Hire Company on Trial for Running Illegal Waste Site
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Formerly a glass bottling facility at Lincoln, the site had been illegally used by the director of a skip hire company for waste management.
Kenneth Harrison, sole director of KJ Harrison Limited, pleaded guilty to two charges, that included operation of illegal waste site at the old Glass Recycling Facility in Great Northern Terrace. He had [...]
