A LARGE pile of rubbish has been dumped in a car park – right behind a sign that reads ‘no littering or fly-tipping’.

The mess has appeared up against the fence by the travellers’ site on the far end of the Aqueduct Road car park in Blackburn.

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Among the rubbish on the car park, which is regularly used by football fans for Blackburn Rovers home games, appears to be large plastic pipes and containers as well as sheets of metal and bin bags full of household waste.

Ewood councillor Maureen Bateson, who is also executive member for regeneration on Blackburn with Darwen Council, said: “We have had problems for a long time on those car park areas and we have to clean them regularly.

“We do not appreciate people fly-tipping on those and if we do find out who they are we will prosecute.

“It costs us a lot of money to clear away people’s rubbish so we will do everything we can to recoup that money from those responsible.”

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The car park is directly across the road from the Thwaites Empire Theatre and is used by theatre patrons coming to Blackburn to watch the shows.

Michael Berry, chairman of the theatre, said: “It is frustrating for us having that across the road.

“Fly-tipping and dumping rubbish is very prevalent now.

“A lot of people just put their litter where it is convenient for them.

“In our car park we have a little place where a pensioner plants flowers and if you look at it in the morning it is full of rubbish and cigarette ends.

“People are just too lazy to get rid of it properly. It is just bad mannered really.

“As a little theatre we are trying to make this part of Ewood worth coming to and then when people come, they see all the rubbish and it really doesn’t help us.”