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SWLNflytip – by Faye Mayern This shocking picture shows 20 tonnes of fly-tipped rubbish on a main road as a councillor brands the mess as an ‘outrage’. The waste was dumped at 8.34pm on February 5 covering one lane of Brentwood Road in Essex between The Halfway House and Thorndon Country Park. New figures from the Environment Department (Defra) showed local authorities in England dealt with 1.15 million fly-tipping incidents in 2023/24. Councillor David Worsfold, Brentwood Borough Council’s Vice-Chair of the Clean and Green Committee, said the fly-tipping was ‘criminal on an industrial scale’. Mr Worsfold said: “I was horrified…