MAN was being is to be sentenced on Wednesday (January 16) for dumping waste behind Kingfisher Special School in Oldham.

Francis Antony Heaton of Gorton, Manchester, pleaded guilty to the offence on December 18 at Tameside Magistrates’ Court.

The school was left with a bill of £22,197 to remove the illegally dumped waste off Foxdenton Lane, in Chadderton.

He was being sentenced at Manchester Crown Court at Minshull Street.