Images show a vast, chaotic slope of plastic, foam, timber and mixed industrial scrap rising up to 20ft dumped next to the River Cherwell near Kidlington, Oxfordshire Rubbish dumped in 'Britain's biggest ever fly tip' measuring 500ft long (Image: Tom Wren / SWNS)

Startling new photos have exposed the magnitude of what authorities are calling one of Britain's most severe instances of fly-tipping. The 500ft-long, 50 ft-wide mound of shredded waste was dumped in a single instance on a floodplain next to the River Cherwell near Kidlington, Oxfordshire.

The images reveal an enormous, disorderly hill of plastic, foam, timber and assorted industrial debris up to 20ft (6 metres) deep, with no discernible structure - just a massive jumbled mix of rubbish and soil. Parts of the pile have a

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