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Evening Standard
Environment
Clara Margotin

FOUND: Two men arrested over huge illegal waste tip in oxfordshire | Mind Blowing Facts

Police making an arrest as part of an ongoing investigation into the large-scale, illegal tipping of waste at a site in Kidlington, Oxfordshire (Defra/PA) - (PA Media)

Two men have been arrested as part of an investigation into the illegal tipping of waste at a site near the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire.

The dumping of a 150-metre long mountain of waste in a field alongside the A34 in Kidlington raises the risk of pollution into the nearby river, has provoked widespread outrage, and was declared a critical incident by the Environment Agency (EA).

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