Somerset cheese company fined over twenty thousand pounds for third pollution incident

A Somerset cheese-making company has been fined over £23,700 for a third case of causing pollution from its farm.

Alvis Brothers Ltd makes Lye Cross Farm cheeses and supplies supermarket chains Waitrose, Ocado and Asda.

Bristol magistrates heard on Friday (November 10) that Alvis Brothers Ltd had similar offences from 2013 and 2019.

District Judge Matthews said that this was another case of the company failing to self-report a pollution incident to the Environment Agency because “they hope to get away with pollution incidents”.