Make fly tipping anti social act

FLY-TIPPING has become the scourge of rural life, a landowners' chief told a "litter summit".

"There is scarcely a farm or estate that does not have some horror story to tell," Paul Long, eastern region director of the Country Land and Business Association told the summit, organised by local authorities of the Suffolk Waste Management Group.

Mr Long said a change of culture in the "throw-away society was the only hope of combating the problem of litter and fly-tipping

"We need severe penalties rigorously imposed," he added.