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The leader of Walsall Council has threatened fly-tippers and those who use them to get rid of waste with the full force of the law.

Councillor Mike Bird said perpetrators have to be ‘grabbed by the throat or elsewhere in their anatomy’ to make sure they don’t reoffend.

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The comments were made at a meeting of Walsall Council’s cabinet on Wednesday September 24 where members unanimously approved the expenditure of £4.7million to ramp up enforcement efforts.

The money will fund five commitments – a fly-tipping crackdown, a fixed penalty expansion, bulky waste enforcement, the creation of a unified enforcement board and the expansion of CCTV.

Councillor Mike Bird said: “Earlier in the year I made the commitmen

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