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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.

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 non-compliant activity associated with crop cultivation.

A Thurso man has been ordered to pay a civil penalty of £12,327.08 by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) for illegally dumping controlled waste on land in Weydale during the Covid-19 lockdowns.

Two farming partnerships have been issued civil penalties totalling £10,400 by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) following pollution of watercourses in Perthshire and Stirling.