A BASINGSTOKE woman has been fined for illegally fly-tipping an array of items, including a bike and a doll's house, in Popley last year.

Stevie Luckens from Dryden Close pleaded guilty to depositing a number of household waste items in Dryden Close, Popley, when she appeared at Basingstoke Magistrates Court on Thursday.

Luckens, 23, dumped the items, which also included chairs, on or before 5 September, 2017.

Magistrates ordered her to pay a £690 fine, £1024.34 in legal costs and a £69 victim surcharge.

Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council’s interim head of environmental services Tom Payne said: “We take fly-tipping in our borough very seriously and this demonstrates the courts do too.

"Environmental crime, such as the illegal dumping of waste, costs this council thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money each year.

“It is not acceptable to dump waste and we will continue our enforcement work and, where appropriate, prosecute offenders and stamp out this inconsiderate act.”

For more information or to report fly-tipping, go to basingstoke.gov.uk/flytipping.