A man who used his Bride farm as an illegal rubbish tip has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £500 prosecution costs.

Glyn Deryck Jones, aged 58, will also be fined £40 a day for every day that work to remove the rubbish is not completed.

As we reported last week Jones pleaded guilty to four offences of dumping controlled waste without a licence at Grenaby Farm between September 2007 and August 2016, storing skips and processing waste without planning consent, failing to comply with the enforcement notice and failing to remove the waste.

As he was sentenced this week Deputy High Bailiff Jayne Hughes said: ’You run a skip business and it was within your powers to remove it. Had there been a profit I would have committed you to the higher court. I am pleased to hear you are taking steps to clear the site. You can expect a substantial fine in excess of today’s one if you don’t.’

Defending Jones advocate Paul Rodgers said: ’There was no profit and no evidence of environmental hazard. He has made strides to remove the material. It has now gone to legitimate landfill sites and the skips have been taken to his sites.’

The court heard how, when Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture officials visited the farm they found junk deposited on the site over a number of years, including old tyres, building rubble, glass, plastic, stone, metal, insulation boards, electrical switches and wiring and even the burnt-out remains of a trawler.

Complaints were first made in 2007 about the burning of illegal waste.

In February 2008 Jones was advised in a letter about pollution and told he needed a licence to burn waste on the site. He was also told planning permission was needed to store skips there. He was reminded again in November 2010 about waste disposal.

A visit in January 2015 revealed no significant change in the conditions. An enforcement notice was served in February 2015 giving Jones seven months for improvements to be made but by September there was still little done.

Further checks were carried out in August 2016 but Jones admitted even more material had been disposed of there since the notice was served.