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Flytippers will be facing tougher penalties for dumping their waste as fines are set to increase in Fenland. The new penalties will be enforced on littering, flyposting, fly-tipping and handing waste to unauthorised carriers who dump it. Fenland District Council’s cabinet agreed on Monday to use new powers to increase, and, in some cases, more than double, the penalties it can impose for environmental crimes. It also introduced a new fixed penalty for graffitiing and fly-posting. A report before Monday’s cabinet said: “Littering, graffiti, fly-posting and fly-tipping blight communities, impose…

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