Festive waste dumped
A LARGE fly-tip thought to include rubbish from someone’s Christmas celebrations has been dumped by the side of a main road near Cadeby.
Toy boxes, bags of rubbish, clothes and a Roses chocolates tub were among items found in a layby on the A447.
Lindsey Hamlett posted a picture of the mess on Facebook, after she came across the fly-tip on Thursday.
She said: “It was obviously somebody who’s dropped off all their Christmas wrappers and boxes.
“There was a bag of clothes as well, and normal waste. It was a real mess.”
One person commented on her post to say they there was a previous fly-tip there two months ago.
Ms Hamlett thinks the incident probably happened at night and that the layby is an ideal spot for fly-tippers, as they can look along the road to make sure no one is coming, and quickly drive off.
She said: “It wasn’t just a car load in a boot. It must have been a pickup truck or a 4x4, or a Transit-size van.”
She reported the incident to Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council. A spokeswoman for the authority said the fly-tip has now been cleared up.
Ms Hamlett, who lives in Earl Shilton, said there is a layby to the north of the village, on a short one-way lane that connects Leicester Road to Shilton Road, where there is constant fly-tipping.
People regularly dump industrial
waste, paint pots and bags of rubbish there.
The borough council said there is a rubbish bin in the lane and sometimes a litter picker who operates in the area leaves a bag of rubbish there for collection.