Burning tyre leads to E395 penalty • Brian Yeardley Continental,
25th February 1993, Page 12
25th February 1993
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and an employee, Andrew Brown, have been given a 12-month conditional discharge for Clean Air Act offences. The company was ordered to pay prosecution costs of £394.88.
Environmental health officer Rachel Shaw told magistrates she had traced smoke to Yeardley's premises.
There was a fire at the far end and a young man was sitting watching it, without making any attempt to put it out. The smoke was being caused by a tyre at the centre of the fire. Brown said that he had been clearing up rubbish. It was the usual practice to burn rubbish and he had not noticed the tyre.