A police and council investigation has seen a truck driver fined.

On Wednesday, Kent Police and Tunbridge Wells Borough Council carried out an investigation into vehicles carrying recycling waste.

Officers discovered a truck in Old Hay carrying a scrapped Jeep.

The driver was stopped and found to have no licence for carrying or transferring waste.

His truck was seized and a fixed penalty notice will be issued.

Checks of another vehicle in the same area led to the identification of a passenger, who was wanted in connection with an offence last year. Andrew Williams, 51, of Cooper’s Close, Chigwell in Essex, was arrested on suspicion of the attempted theft of a Ford Sierra in Dover Road, Sandwich on November 18 2017.

He was later charged and bailed to appear at Folkestone Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday April 11 2018.