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Dairy farmer given suspended prison term over slurry offences

Farmer ordered to pay 拢10,000 after pleading guilty to polluting Somerset watercourse

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A Somerset dairy farmer has been handed a suspended sentence following repeated pollution incidents
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A Somerset dairy farmer has been handed a suspended sentence following repeated pollution incidents

A Somerset dairy farmer has been given a 14-week suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay 拢10,000 costs after he persistently allowed slurry to run off into a stream near his farm. David Bartlett...

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