A WOMAN who dumped an old suite in an alley was tracked down and handed a £336 court bill.

It is the first prosecution brought by Bolton Council's tough new Environmental Education and Enforcement Unit and today other fly-tippers were warned: "You will be next. We are coming to get you."

Bolton magistrates heard on Monday how Jane Fisher, aged 44, of Ainsdale Road, Great Lever, had left an old three piece suite and cardboard packaging in a back alley behind St Helens Road.

An official from Bolton Council's environmental health department visited the alley, following a complaint and managed to trace Fisher through a dispatch note he found among the packaging.

Mr Andrew Morris, for Bolton Council, told the court that Fisher was initially "obstructive and abusive" when questioned about the furniture but then agreed she had left it in the street.

Fisher, who admitted the fly tipping offence, said that she had ordered the furniture for her boyfriend's home in St Helens Road, Daubhill, but had it delivered to her address in Ainsdale Road.

She said she then arranged for the new suite to be moved to her boyfriend's house, and she put his old suite into the back street, because there was no room inside the house, and he did not have a back garden. Fisher was fined £100 and ordered to pay £236 costs.

Today, Cllr Roger Hayes, Bolton Council's executive member for direct services warned: "There is no hiding place in Bolton for anyone who commits offences against the environment."

She claimed the council removed the furniture before she got a chance to make arrangements herself.

Magistrates were not impressed with her explanation and said that fly-tipping is unacceptable.

Fisher was fined £100 and ordered to pay £236 costs.

Today, Cllr Roger Hayes, Bolton Council's executive member for direct services warned: "There is no hiding place in Bolton for anyone who commits offences against the environment."