Clean-up of Britain’s ‘biggest fly-tip ever’ costs taxpayers £6million

Teams have finished a five-month clean-up operation of an illegal waste dump near the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire.

The 150-metre-long trail of waste was deposited in a field by the A34 in Kidlington last year, prompting widespread outrage.

A criminal investigation was launched and the Environment Agency (EA) declared it a critical incident in November.

The watchdog has since co-ordinated the clean-up operation, with contractors starting to remove 15 to 30 lorry loads of rubbish each day in April.

Over five months, teams from Acumen Waste Service removed an estimated 22,704 tonnes of rubbish, with the operation costing an estimated £6million.

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