Nottingham City Council is continuing its clampdown on litter bugs by prosecuting three people for dropping cigarette ends on the floor.

Miss Kerry Furnell of Woodfield Road, Nottingham was witnessed throwing a cigarette end onto the floor outside Broad Marsh shopping centre on 2 October 2007. She was issued with a fixed penalty notice which she failed to pay. The case was heard before Nottingham Magistrates Court on 14 April 2007 and was proven in Miss Furnell absence. She was ordered to pay a fine of £375, costs of £177 and a victim surcharge of £15 totalling to £567.

Miss Charlene Allen of Anderson Court, Nottingham was issued with a fixed penalty notice after she threw a cigarette end at the same location on the same date. She also failed to pay the fine and the matter was heard before Nottingham Magistrates Court on 14 April 2008, she was also ordered to pay a penalty totalling £567.

Ms Louise Purnell of Brookfield Road, Nottingham discarded a cigarette end in the Old Market Square on 18 September 2007. She was given an opportunity to pay a fixed penalty notice and failed to do so. As a result her case was heard before the Magistrate's Court on April 14 2008 and she was ordered to pay a penalty totalling of £567.

Cllr Katrina Bull, Portfolio Holder for Environment and Climate Change at Nottingham City Council, said: “Cigarette related litter is probably the most common type of litter on our streets, cigarette ends are unsightly and are very costly for the taxpayers to clean up. Nottingham City Council wants to send a message that it will not tolerate unnecessary littering and anyone caught dropping litter will receive an on the spot fine. We have recently provided an additional 1000 litter bins across the city to assist people to dispose of their litter”