14 more massive landfill sites to come on stream

Just when the nation's councils were wondering where to dump all the waste paper they're collecting comes news of 14 new approvals for opencast coal mines last year. These holes in the ground will be massive; as the BBC report says:

In the case of the Delhi opencast mine in Northumberland, where two million tons of coal have been carved out of the ground in six years, the hole is as deep as a tower block and nearly half a mile (0.8km) long.

Now if only this lunatic government (coerced by a lunatic EU, it must be said) stopped charging £48 a tonne tax for filling them up, we might see a reduction in council tax ...