A Lincoln demolition company director has been ordered to pay almost £8,000 in fines for unlawfully dumping and burning waste.
John Trevor Thurlby, 73, of Forest Dene, Eagle Moor, Lincoln, was prosecuted by Lincolnshire County Council for the unlawful deposit of waste in contravention of a planning order.
Thurlby, who was a financial director of ART Demolition Ltd at the time of the offences, pleaded guilty to the charge. He has since resigned from ART Demolition Ltd.
He was ordered to pay almost £8,000 in fines and costs by Lincoln Magistrates’ Court on January 31, 2019.
Thurlby was also given a Criminal Behaviour Order requiring him not to store, process or dispose of controlled waste on the field unless authorised by appropriate planning permission and permits.
The investigation
The investigation took place in 2017 and 2018 after county council planning officers received information that ART Demolition was carrying out unauthorised deposit and burning of waste materials at Forest Dene on Eagle Moor.
Officers visited the site and found an unauthorised deposit and storage of waste materials, as well as an area used for burning waste.
The council then served two Planning Contravention notices for the yard and the field. A Temporary Stop notice was also served to stop the dumping of any more waste in the field.
However, a subsequent visit, council officers found waste materials had once again been deposited in this field. This was in clear breach of the regulations.
The county council worked with the Environment Agency to ensure the waste was removed from the site.
Sending a strong message
Executive councillor for commercial and environmental management at Lincolnshire County Council, Eddy Poll, said: “I hope this case and its penalties send a strong message to others – if you breach planning rules, we will not tolerate it, we will hold you to account and we will prosecute you.”
A spokesperson for the Environment Agency said: “This case demonstrates how serious illegal waste crime is. Waste crime damages the environment, endangers communities and undermines legitimate business and we work together with our enforcement partners e.g. the council, to take robust action against those who deliberately ignore the law to protect communities and the environment.”
Anyone with suspicions that waste is being deposited illegally on any land should contact the Environment Agency on 0800 80 70 60 or anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.”
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A man reportedly reached under a 14-year-old girl’s skirt and took a photograph at a shopping centre in Grantham, police said.
The girl was looking at clothes at a charity shop in the Isaac Newton Shopping Centre when the crime took place on Monday, October 25 at 9.40am.
She was then approached from behind by a man who placed his phone underneath her skirt to take a picture.
After being challenged, the man turned and ran away from the shop.
Police are now appealing to locate the man in the CCTV picture below, who has been described as having short blonde hair with a short blonde beard, having pale skin and being of thin build.
The man ran away from the shop when challenged. | Photo: Lincolnshire Police
He is thought to be in his mid-30s and was said to be wearing a dark hoody with a red emblem, as well as dark blue jeans.
If you can help identify the man in the picture, who police believe can help with enquiries, get in touch in one of the following ways:
Call 101 and quote incident 83 of October 25
Email [email protected] and quote the same incident number in the subject line
A Lincolnshire RAF veteran who switched careers to work as a carer is campaigning against ableism and ageism in the UK job market.
Les Venus is calling for people who feel discriminated against due to their disability or age to seriously consider a job in the care sector to avoid systematic prejudices embedded within the UK job market.
The 63-year-old is now working at Home From Home Care’s Lincolnshire-based residential care homes as a personal support worker . He was on the brink of retiring in 2016 before seeing an online advert for Home From Home Care which changed his life.
He empowers adults with learning difficulties, autism and complex physical and mental health needs, and is encouraging others to join him in the care sector to do the same.
He said: “If you’re feeling underpaid, undervalued, or undermined – come to the care sector and there is a place for you. I’d never done care work in my life before this and if I’d have known about this 40 years ago, I’d have made this my career. It’s an amazing thing to do.”
Les is campaigning against ableism and ageism in the UK job market.
Les was previously an officer in the Royal Air Force for 17 years. He then movied to the business world to become a director for the property firm Henry Boot Management, and then engineering company Babcock International.
As a consultant, Les later helped the government draft its 2010 Equality Act, legislation which makes it illegal to discriminate against prospective employees on the basis of age, disability, gender or sex, race, religion, sexual orientation or partnership status.
However, Les still feels that not enough is being done to safeguard against off-the-record bigotry during the hiring process.
He said: “I think the Equality Act is a very good piece of paper, but that’s pretty much all it is. I think people pay lip service to it, not only in terms of ageism but also disability and sexism, racism and everything else.
“I think people can have the interview and make their own judgements and they’ll write down what those judgements are, but it is in many cases underpinned by an unspoken personal prejudice – and that’s not recorded, of course.
“You’ll often hear that the individual didn’t meet the mark or didn’t have the experience or didn’t have this or that… when the fact that they were 63 years old and seen as ‘past their sell-by date’ was the real reason for the rejection.”
Close to 1,000 homes in Ruskington suffered a power cut on Wednesday morning.
Properties on Station Road, Winchelsea Road, Lime Close, Bellview Road, Hawthorn Close, Rectory Road and more were hit with the cut at around 9.40am on Wednesday.
A total of 979 houses were affected by the outage within the NG34 postcode area.
Engineers were on their way to address the issue at 9.50am. | Photo: Western Power Distribution
Western Power Distribution has said it is aware of the issue and hope to have the power restored by 11am on Wednesday morning, with engineers on their way to deal with it.
A spokesperson for WPD said: “We are aware of this power cut incident which was raised at 9:42am this morning and our engineers are working to get the power returned as quickly as possible. We are sorry for any inconvenience this is causing you.”
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