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A THORNBURY man has been ordered to pay a total of £276 after being stopped illegally transporting garden waste.

Duncan Young, aged 45, of Dovedale, pleaded guilty to the offence of transporting waste without a waste carriers licence at Bristol Magistrates Court in January.

South Gloucestershire Council prosecuted him after stopping a vehicle during a road safety operation at The Mall, Cribbs Causeway, carried out by police and environmental enforcement officers, last October.

A council spokesperson said: "The vehicle was liveried with D Young Garden Services and was towing a trailer that contained a large quantity of green waste.

"The defendant confirmed the vehicle and business were his own.

"He also confirmed that he had been present when the green waste had been loaded on to the vehicle."

Young confirmed that he did not have a waste carriers licence and that the waste had been collected as part of a job the business had completed the previous day, which he had received payment for.

He was then told he had committed an offence.