Pounds 1,500 Fine for 30-Year Pollution of Top River ; Farmer Says Case Did Not Justify Prosecution
The Journal › November 21, 2007
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ANIMAL waste and silage effluent from a farm have been discharging into a Northumberland river for the past 30 years, a court was told.
John Goodfellow, 63, yesterday pleaded guilty to polluting the North Tyne river at The Ridings Farm, near Bellingham, Northumberland, over a period that dates to the 1970s.See the full content of this document
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Pounds 1,500 Fine for 30-Year Pollution of Top River ; Farmer Says Case Did Not Justify Prosecution
Magistrates at Tynedale Court were told that a combination of slurry from a cow shed and silage effluent from a...
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