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Scotland’s environmental regulator is urging land managers to ensure practices are in line with environmental regulations after serving a £600 civil penalty to a farmer for unauthorised river engineering.

A Kirkcudbrightshire farmer has been served with a civil penalty of £600 by Scotland’s environment regulator for carrying out unauthorised engineering works on the bank of the River Dee at Mayfield Farm in Tongland.

Waste producers and carriers are being reminded of the importance of keeping accurate records after a Rothesay man was given a £300 penalty for failing to complete waste transfer notes correctly.

Seventeen river catchments in Scotland are now at Alert level for water scarcity, with further hot and dry weather expected.

Scotland’s environmental regulator is reminding waste carriers of the serious consequences for forging records after serving a £1,000 civil penalty to a man who provided a waste transfer notice with false information.

Scotland’s environmental regulator is warning that illegally burning waste could result in financial consequences after serving a £600 civil penalty on West Lothian haulage company.