Illegal hydrants have been identified as the likely source of an increase in discoloured tap water in Birmingham. As well as damaging supplies the standpipe bandits operating the illegal equipment are ...

Wheelie Cleaners staff used standpipe to fill their 300-gallon tank from hydrant but when challenged company claim 'they were doing nothing wrong' A BIN cleaning firm which illegally tapped into the ...

A firm that broke the law by tapping water for its premises has been fined £2,800 by a Cambridge court. Plant hire company Philip Goodwin Ltd was found guilty of illegally taking water from a hydrant ...

A construction and maintenance firm has been prosecuted for illegally filling a tanker using a water hydrant. Southern Water secured took FM Conway to court after watching workers fill up from its ...

A business owner landed himself in hot water after he was caught illegally tapping into a roadside hydrant. John Taylor, from Gravesend, admitted taking water to supply his animal boarding business in ...