Flytippers in Battersea have been fined £1,000.

A waste disposal company dumped a fridge-freezer, toilet and headboard in Youngs Court.

CCTV footage and van signage led council officers to identify the culprits, who were issued with a Fixed Penalty Notice.

Wandsworth council has collected almost 8,000 tonnes of extra recycling in the last year.

Paul White, Cabinet Member for Environment, said:

“We hate fly-tipping as much as our residents do, and this kind of illegal dumping of items by a company who claim to engage in waste disposal is a blatant disregard of the law.

“We have a zero-tolerance approach to fly-tipping in our borough, and this is helped by our diligent enforcement teams who identified the illegal activity on CCTV and swiftly issued the fine.

“Through our Cleaner Borough Plan, we have ramped up CCTV monitoring in hotspot areas to catch fly-tippers red-handed and work to make Wandsworth a cleaner and more pleasant place to live.”