A woman has been hit with a hefty fine after her friends fly-tipped rubbish from her house party.

The Ashford resident was tracked down after council officers found her details among the waste.

After being alerted to the fly-tipping along Cheesman's Green Lane in Kingsnorth, officers combed through the rubbish and found an address around a mile away from the site.

When the woman was interviewed under caution, she admitted that she had held a house party and had given rubbish from the party to her friends, believing they would dispose of the bags at their home.

Instead the bags were dumped nearby. When asked, the woman refused to give the details of the friends responsible.

The resident was handed a Fixed Penalty Notice of £400 for failing in her 'householders duty of care' in not ensuring the waste was properly disposed of.

It is the second such penalty to be handed out in the space of a week, after officers tracked a large amount of scrap metal and household waste to a home in Ashford.

The waste, which had been dumped on private land along Romden Road in Smarden, had to be cleared at the expense of the farmer who owned the land.

Officers tracked the rubbish down to an address 16 miles away in Ashford, where the resident said he had paid two men £150 to remove it for him.

The men, who took the waste away in a white Ford tipper truck, gave him a receipt but did not show any of the appropriate licences that showed they were legitimate waste collectors.

While a hunt for the two men continues, the resident has also been fined £400. In both cases, the fine falls to £300 if it is paid within 10 days.