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    <lastBuildDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:02:48 GMT</lastBuildDate>
    <copyright>Copyright: (C) Environment Angency</copyright>

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      <title><![CDATA[River Medway boaters fined for navigation offences]]>
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      <link>http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/147930.aspx</link>
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        Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT
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        125 River Medway boaters were issued with warning notices across the 2012 season, with 17 river users prosecuted for keeping an unregistered boat on the Kent waterway.
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      <title><![CDATA[Fishermen net fines and bans for illegal elver fishing]]>
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      <link>http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/147808.aspx</link>
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        Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT
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        Reginald Daldry and John Osmond, both of Gloucester were found guilty at Cheltenham Magistrates Court of elver fishing offences.
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      <title><![CDATA[Carlisle angler fined for killing female salmon]]>
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      <link>http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/147610.aspx</link>
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        Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT
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        A 61-year-old angler has pleaded guilty to a fishing offence after Environment Agency officers caught him leaving the River Eden carrying a bag containing a large female salmon.
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      <title><![CDATA[Gateshead recycling firm fined £10,000 for unauthorised waste activities]]>
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      <link>http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/147608.aspx</link>
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        Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT
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        A Gateshead scrap metal and plastics recycling company has been fined £10,000 for carrying out waste activities without an environmental permit.
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      <title><![CDATA[Three men arrested after waste disguised as hay bales found at a site in Waltham Cross]]>
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      <link>http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/147606.aspx</link>
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        Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT
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        The Environment Agency and Hertfordshire Police are urging farmers and landowners to beware of a scam in which household and business waste is being illegally dumped on open land, camouflaged as plastic-wrapped hay bales. 
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      <title><![CDATA[Hertfordshire man fined for operating illegal waste business from a barn]]>
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      <link>http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/147602.aspx</link>
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        Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT
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        A man who ran a small illegal waste operation in Hertfordshire has been fined £300 by Magistrates following a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency.
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      <title><![CDATA[Water company fined for failing to report problem at sewage works ]]>
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      <link>http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/147520.aspx</link>
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        Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT
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        South West Water has been ordered to pay £8,637 in fines and costs for failing to alert the Environment Agency to a serious problem at its Ivybridge sewage treatment works. 
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      <title><![CDATA[Two men receive maximum ban for illegal elver fishing]]>
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      <link>http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/147338.aspx</link>
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        Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT
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        Two Bridgwater men have both been banned for five years after being caught illegally fishing for elvers on the River Tone in Somerset.
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      <title><![CDATA[North Lincolnshire company fined £5,000 for scrapping vehicles on unauthorised land]]>
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      <link>http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/147350.aspx</link>
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        Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT
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        Yesterday, Belle Vue Trucks Limited pleaded guilty at Scunthorpe Magistrates’ Court to one charge of operating a waste facility when there was no environmental permit in force.
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      <title><![CDATA[Waste carrier dumped and burnt tyres at illegal site ]]>
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      <link>http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/147260.aspx</link>
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        Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT
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        A waste carrier has been ordered to carry out 80 hours of unpaid work after admitting depositing shredded tyres and burning waste at a site which did not have a permit.  
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