Rogue Chasetown scrap metal merchant is fined
A rogue scrap merchant has been ordered to pay £2,000 by a court after he was caught operating without a licence.
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Lichfield District Council received a complaint in July about scrap metal being stored at the front of The Cottage of Content pub, Queen Street, in Chasetown.
John Jukes had been illegally operating as a mobile scrap metal collector and storing his spoils at the premises.
Jukes, of Saint Anne's Close, Chasetown, pleaded guilty and was fined £1,300 and told to pay £700 costs and charges.
The council also prosecuted a Walsall firm that dumped waste on land in Lichfield. James O'Sullivan, of Sullivan Holdings Ltd, Coppice Side Industrial Estate, pleaded guilty to fly-tipping and was ordered to pay £1,020.
