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Fly-tipping furniture company caught thanks to dumped pizza receipt
Two tonnes of commercial waste was dumped in the grounds of Royal Blackburn Hospital (Picture: MEN Media) A furniture firm that fly-tipped two tons of rubbish was caught out when investigators found a £20 takeaway pizza receipt among the waste. EMM Furniture Ltd left the enormous waste piles on the grounds of Royal Blackburn Hospital, Lancashire, in April last year, prompting council chiefs to launch an investigation. Photos taken at the site show large see-through bin bags full of commercial rubbish, pieces of wood, and other waste chucked into surrounding shrubbery and hanging from trees. Enquiries were opened after Blackburn with Darwen Council officers received an anonymous tip-off from a member of the public along with a picture of two people fly-tipping waste from a van. During the i
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