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Cleaning up after the flytippers

Southampton has come top of the league in a new study of the places worst affected by flytipping in the South East.

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What a lot of rubbish!

Rubbish dumped in Kent Credit: ITV Meridian

Council officers in the South are being forced to deal with more cases of fly-tipping as people try to avoid the costs of recycling by dumping rubbish.

A new survey by the GMB shows that officers in Southampton were called to 8,708 cases of fly-tipping, the highest across the South.

While in Medway the local authority dealt with 3,130 separate incidents including a case where a man dumped builder's rubbish onto the door of a charity shop.

Community Officer at Medway Council Simon Harwood called out to fly tipping in Chatham Credit: ITV Meridian

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