A man has been arrested as part of the investigation into illegal tipping of waste at a site near the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, the Environment Agency (EA) said.The dumping of a 150-metre long mountain of waste in a field alongside the A34 in Kidlington, raising risks of pollution into the nearby river, provoked widespread outrage and has been declared a “critical incident” by the EA.The EA said co-operation between officers from its major investigation team and the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit led to the arrest of a 39-year-old man from the Guildford area on Tuesday.
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