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The lockdown has brought the advantage of discovering new places to explore within the local area. Taking a stroll alongside the Slough Arm of the Grand Union Canal has become an enjoyable activity for many more residents recently. It’s packed with wildlife and a great place to visit for those who haven’t explored that area before. However over the last few weeks the peace, beauty and wildlife of this area have been disrupted.
There have been at least four separate dumps of fly-tipping including clothes and toys, metal waste, beer cans and general household waste, as well as rubbish being thrown in the water. Chalvey Household Waste and Recycling Centre reopened three weeks ago and we would encourage all our residents to think carefully before fly-tipping. If you are caught you can be fined up to £50,000 and/or sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. If a vehicle is used to fly-tip waste both the driver and the owner can be prosecuted and the vehicle can be seized.
As well as rubbish becoming an issue, shockingly on Friday 22 May on the Langley stretch of the canal, in the late afternoon sometime between 4.55pm and 6pm, a cygnet that hatched only two weeks earlier was shot by an air rifle. This was the only cygnet born to swans that had laid seven eggs. This horrendous crime has been reported to the police, anyone with any information please call 101 (the non emergency number) and mention this reference number : URN1757/22/05/2020
Unbelievably on Tuesday 26 May a duck was also found shot dead by a resident near to where the cygnet was shot dead just days before. This has also been reported to the police.
Cllr Natasa Pantelic, cabinet member for health and wellbeing, said: “I am appalled to hear that there has been regular fly-tipping next to the canal in Langley, please dispose of your rubbish responsibly or you could incur a fine and a prison sentence. I’m also absolutely horrified that a two week old cygnet and a duck were killed with an air rifle. This is sickening. I urge anyone with any information on these incidents to report it to the police on 101 using reference no: URN1757/22/05/2020. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Swan Support who are a fantastic charity, for dealing with these incidents and all the work they do in the area for swans and other waterfowl. The canal is a lovely area for all our residents to enjoy, and we will fight to protect it.”
The environment of the tow path is a great place to explore and may be somewhere you haven’t visited before, even if you have lived in the borough for some time. Especially during this warmer weather it’s a great place for an evening stroll – check it out and share your images with us on Twitter @SloughCouncil or Facebook on @sloughcouncil
All photos by resident Michal Tawroginski.
There have been at least four separate dumps of fly-tipping including clothes and toys, metal waste, beer cans and general household waste, as well as rubbish being thrown in the water. Chalvey Household Waste and Recycling Centre reopened three weeks ago and we would encourage all our residents to think carefully before fly-tipping. If you are caught you can be fined up to £50,000 and/or sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. If a vehicle is used to fly-tip waste both the driver and the owner can be prosecuted and the vehicle can be seized.
As well as rubbish becoming an issue, shockingly on Friday 22 May on the Langley stretch of the canal, in the late afternoon sometime between 4.55pm and 6pm, a cygnet that hatched only two weeks earlier was shot by an air rifle. This was the only cygnet born to swans that had laid seven eggs. This horrendous crime has been reported to the police, anyone with any information please call 101 (the non emergency number) and mention this reference number : URN1757/22/05/2020
Unbelievably on Tuesday 26 May a duck was also found shot dead by a resident near to where the cygnet was shot dead just days before. This has also been reported to the police.
Cllr Natasa Pantelic, cabinet member for health and wellbeing, said: “I am appalled to hear that there has been regular fly-tipping next to the canal in Langley, please dispose of your rubbish responsibly or you could incur a fine and a prison sentence. I’m also absolutely horrified that a two week old cygnet and a duck were killed with an air rifle. This is sickening. I urge anyone with any information on these incidents to report it to the police on 101 using reference no: URN1757/22/05/2020. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Swan Support who are a fantastic charity, for dealing with these incidents and all the work they do in the area for swans and other waterfowl. The canal is a lovely area for all our residents to enjoy, and we will fight to protect it.”
The environment of the tow path is a great place to explore and may be somewhere you haven’t visited before, even if you have lived in the borough for some time. Especially during this warmer weather it’s a great place for an evening stroll – check it out and share your images with us on Twitter @SloughCouncil or Facebook on @sloughcouncil
All photos by resident Michal Tawroginski.
