A Royston man, Nicholas Bramwell, has been fined nearly £10,000 after he admitted allowing plastic, wood, metal, packaging and soil to be buried illegally.

Waste at Anstey Quarry, near Royston, reached 20 metres into the sky, as high as five buses on top of each other, while material at Nuthampstead shooting ground was hidden under a landscaped area.  

Bramwell, 44, of Shepherds Close, Royston, was fined £1,450 in June last year and ordered to pay £8,000 towards the Environment Agency's costs and a victim surcharge of £120.

The fine comes after two men were jailed after the Environment Agency prosecuted former teacher Liam Winters and his brother, Mark Winters, for the unlawful disposal of large quantities of household and business waste at Codicote Quarry, off the A1, for almost three years.

Liam Winters was handed a 17-month prison term by St Albans crown court, while Mark Winters, with links to the Republic of Ireland, was sentenced to 12 months inside, suspended for two years. The court also banned the brothers as company directors for eight years.

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