A DOG owner has been ordered to pay more than £1,000 after failing to clear up after his pets on two separate occasions. 

Richard Hignett has been fined by Bolton Council as part of a crackdown on fly-tipping and dog fouling offences.

He was found guilty in his absence at Bolton Magistrates' Court of allowing his dogs to foul in Back Church Road North, in Smithills, on March 11 and in Hollywood Road, Smithills, on June 15. 

Mr Hignett, aged 53 and of Hollywood Road, was fined £880 and ordered to pay £170 in costs and a £44 victim surcharge. 

Councillor Nick Peel, Bolton Council’s executive cabinet member for environmental services, said: “We have said time and again that allowing your dogs to foul without picking up after them and dumping waste is not acceptable and will not be tolerated under any circumstances."

Three people have also been fined for fly-tipping.

Barry Sykes, aged 49 and of Thorpe Street in Halliwell, was found guilty in his absence at Bolton Magistrates' Court of fly-tipping wood, cardboard and a window frame near his home.

He was fined £440, ordered to pay £385 in costs and a £44 victim surcharge.

Justinas Grigas, aged 26, was also found guilty in his absence of dumping two domestic waste bags alongside wood and toys at the rear of his home in Shepherd Cross Street in Halliwell. 

He was fined £440, ordered to pay £211 in costs and a victim surcharge of £44.

Anna Blogosz, aged 34, was fined £440 for dumping four pieces of wood, polystyrene, a cardboard box, a mop head, two black seat backs and a blue plastic tray in the back street of Woodbine Road, in Daubhill. 

Blogosz, of Alston Street in Great Lever, was ordered to pay £200 in costs and the victim surcharge of £44.

Cllr Peel added: “These individuals have damaged Bolton’s environment and made a nuisance for its residents, and they must be made to pay the consequences of their actions.

"We hope these prosecutions act as a deterrent to any potential future offenders.”

Anyone with information about fly-tipping can report it at bolton.gov.uk/website/pages/Flytipping