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James atkins, from essex, was given 16 months after being found guilty of owning or having control of a lorry that was used to dump brick rubble, soils and plastic at night at swan business park. cctv footage showed a tipper truck registered to atkins being driven onto the site at almost midnight when the waste was unloaded. barbecues will be banned in islington parks to protect the environment and reduce air pollution. the council estimates it will save £50,000 a year in security costs at highbury fields alone. last summer's extreme heat wave saw an unprecedented number of grass fires. let's...

The recent weather conditions has dried out the brush, creating the perfect recipe for an increased risk of grass fires.

Authorities said the fires are generally in the same area

Foot of the diesel tank, the station itself. so, we're actually standing next to 5,000 litres of diesel just here and you can see where the flames got really, really close, licking up the side of the diesel storage, so it could have been an awful lot worse. yeah, it's due to the hard work of the crews that attended the fire on that day. yeah, the crews must have been seriously stretched on that day because, of course, this wasn't an isolated incident, and you had other really major fires in the local area and right across london, so just how did you cope as a fire service? so, that's right, it...

The fire station. it's come within about two foot of the diesel tank, the station itself. so, we're actually standing next to 5,000 litres of diesel just here and you can see where the flames got really, really close, licking up the side of the diesel storage, so it could have been an awful lot worse. yeah, it's due to the hard work of the crews that attended the fire on that day. yeah, the crews must have been seriously stretched on that day because, of course, this wasn't an isolated incident, and you had other really major fires in the local area and right across london, so just how did you...