Cigarette ones before anyone shifts this to over 18's
Following on from Mez's issue the other week I was talking to a young lady about cigarette ends in Broadway the other week and asking how strict they are re the litter problem. ( In Burnley they have been fining you for about 3 years for dropping cigartee ends.)
The answer to my question was in the Telegraph the other day;
SMOKERS were hit with £75 fines after throwing their cigarette butts on the floor.
Two shoppers in Broadway, Accrington, and a motorist in Eastgate were spotted littering by Hyndburn Council enforc-ement officers from environmental services.
Also in the Telegraph they have been clamping down in Blackburn, but notice which one of the 3 got the heaviest fine
Three men have been ordered to pay a total of £700 for dropping litter.
The prosecutions were brought by Blackburn with Darwen Council as part of zero tolerance campaign on rubbish.
Bosses said taxi driver Mohammed Azad, of St James Road, Blackburn, was fined £70 and ordered to pay £149 court costs for throwing a cigarette butt from a black cab he was driving.
He threw the butt from the drivers' window as he drove along Bolton Road on Wednesday, March 28.
Waqqar Malik, of Pringle Street, was also fined £70 and ordered to pay £149 court costs after he threw a penalty charge notice on the ground in Church Street on Friday, March 9.
And Daniel Ostle, of Gannon Lane, Burnley, was ordered to pay a fine of £100 and £149 court costs after he was caught throwing food wrappings from the car he was driving in Bolton Road, Blackburn, on March 9.