In the fields beside the River Cherwell, a ten-metre mountain of illegally dumped waste became a monument to the quiet violence of environmental crime — one that cost a community months of anxiety and the public purse six million pounds to undo. Six people have now been arrested in connection with the Kidlington dump, which at over 22,000 tonnes required an exceptional intervention by the Environment Agency, departing from its usual policy of leaving such sites to those responsible. The case has become something of a reckoning: a test of whether the institutions charged with protecting the lan
Six arrested in £6m Oxfordshire fly-tipping case as 22,700-tonne waste mountain cleared
Local residents of Kidlington endured months of exposure to an illegal waste site posing fire and environmental risks to their community.