A housing developer was recently fined £7 600 for destroying a colony of great crested newts during the development of a former Butlin’s holiday camp in North Yorkshire.

Scarborough Magistrates found the property developer guilty of eight counts of destroying wildlife and their shelters.

(As reported in the Daily Telegraph Tuesday 30 July 2002.)

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