A CURRY house owner who dumped bags of rotting rubbish outside a rival takeaway has been given an 80-hour community punishment order.

Ishrad Ali, aged 44, who owned the Curry Cottage in Albert Road, Farnworth, pleaded guilty to three fly-tipping offences under the Environmental Protection Act.

Bolton magistrates heard that the father-of-three, of Gibraltar Street, Deane, had driven five miles in the early hours of the morning to dump rotting meat carcasses, bin liners of leftover food and drums of cooking oil outside the Kurry Korner in Chorley Old Road.

Rubbish was also found dumped in Deane Road and in Gibraltar Street.

Ali, who now works as a waiter in Eccles after his business closed, was also ordered to pay £800 towards the cost of the clean-up operation.