PICTURE the scene. You are driving along one of the ring roads around Andover, tucking into a snack. Once you've finished, you decide to open your window and throw away your rubbish.

Or perhaps you have just finished some work at home. You load your car with rubbish but you can't be bothered with the tip. You find a little lane and dump the waste when you think no one is looking. Are you either of these people?

I would think not. I know our Advertiser readers would never be guilty of such disgusting behaviour.

But we know there are people out there who wilfully discard rubbish as we see the results on the streets, in the hedgerows and on our pavements.

Though it appears the perpetrators who are fly-tipping in our town aren't actually from Andover, as two reports in this newspaper reveal this week (pages 2 and 6).

Maneva Costell from Harefield, Southampton, has been fined for dumping household rubbish outside Asda. What is going through someone's mind when they travel 32 miles to ditch decaying nappies and food waste outside a supermarket?

Perhaps we should ask the two sisters from Romsey, who have been fined £1,500, for fly-tipping in Andover.

The pair, who journeyed 18 miles to dump their waste, were requested to attend an interview to explain how their rubbish ended up at these Andover sites but neither responded.

This is selfish and lazy behaviour and puts added strain on our already exhausted public services.

And how cowardly of them not to justify or apologise their behaviour. If you are brave enough to throw away your junk in our town, you should at least have the courage to apologise and seek forgiveness.

I hope all three individuals are embarrassed after rightly being named and shamed.

Well done to Test Valley Borough Council for investigating and bringing both incidents to court.

Katie French, Editor