After we exposed the rising menace of illegal dumpers, readers reveal how their own areas are being desecrated
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AFTER our powerful exposé on the scourge of fly-tipping earlier this month, there was an extraordinary response from readers. The Mail has been inundated with disturbing photographs which show how the problem — exacerbated by councils charging for the use of official refuse tips — is blighting our towns and villages. Here we publish some of the most shocking images you sent us . . .
SURREY Riders in the lane near Chobham, where Mail reader John Maynard lives. Since his local council began charging to take waste, fly-tippers have struck there 16 times
ESSEX Karen Young blames tough restrictions at a recycling centre in the county town of Chelmsford for these hills of rubble blocking an office building’s driveway
This dismal sprawl has been growing for months by a derelict pub in Greenhill, Herne Bay. Ian Bingham says locals call the once-scenic spot ‘New Greenhill Free Tip’ KENT
CHESHIRE Rubbish dumped by a pick-up truck mars fields by a 140-year-old cricket club in the pretty village of Weston, where children as young as six come to play
COTSWOLDS Car wheels and decorators’ paint tins defile an area of outstanding natural beauty less than two miles from the village of Bibury, a magnet for tourists
WEST YORKSHIRE This dangerous dumping-ground on a field next to a children’s football pitch in the village of Lofthouse, near Wakefield, is infested with rats