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<\/p>\nBev Turner has reignited a debate over \u201cBroken Britain\u201d after reacting to a shocking fly-tipping incident highlighted by Kirsty Gallacher near her Berkshire home.<\/p>\n
The GB News presenter weighed in on social media after Ms Gallacher shared footage of a large pile of construction waste dumped on a rural road close to Bracknell, describing it as the worst example she had seen in her local area.<\/p>\n
Bev responded by branding the situation a clear example of \u201cBroken Britain,\u201d a comment that quickly gained traction online and sparked a wider discussion about rising levels of illegal dumping and declining respect for public spaces.<\/p>\n
Ms Gallacher, 50, said she was \u201cgenuinely shocked\u201d by the scale of the waste left along the country lane, which included roofing materials, insulation foam, black bin bags, drinks cans and timber with exposed nails.<\/p>\n
Kirsty Gallacher posted the video to her personal Instagram page<\/p>\n
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In her Instagram video, she said the rubbish appeared to have come from a roofing job and accused those responsible of simply abandoning it at the roadside.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s some parasite who has been working on a roofing job and decided to chuck all this slate, all this insulation foam, which is going everywhere because it\u2019s windy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Ms Gallacher added that the debris had remained in place for nearly five days, claiming there had been no visible action from the local council.<\/p>\n
\u201cBlack bin liners, cans are everywhere. I actually cannot believe it. And it has been like this for nearly five days. <\/p>\n
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Bev Turner called out what she describes as a ‘Broken Britain’<\/p>\n
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“Council haven\u2019t done anything,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Ms Gallacher also warned that sharp materials were posing a safety risk, pointing out that nails were sticking out of discarded timber while lighter materials were being blown across the surrounding area.<\/p>\n
She described the scene as \u201ca disgrace, an absolute disgrace,\u201d and urged her followers to share information if they recognised the dumping or had experienced similar issues in their own communities.<\/p>\n
The post quickly attracted attention from other public figures. <\/p>\n
Broadcaster Ben Fogle said the images made him \u201cso angry.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, reality TV personality Jo Frost described the dumping as a \u201ccriminal act,\u201d arguing that a lack of respect for the environment begins at home.<\/p>\n
Singer Jessica Pietersen called for better enforcement measures, including the use of number-plate recognition cameras to track offenders.<\/p>\n
However, it was Bev Turner\u2019s response that triggered the strongest reaction online. <\/p>\n
Her \u201cBroken Britain\u201d comment was widely shared, with many users agreeing that fly-tipping has become a growing problem across the country.<\/p>\n
Some echoed her frustration, saying enforcement is too weak, while others argued that illegal dumping has been a long-standing issue that has worsened over time, rather than appearing suddenly.<\/p>\n
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The rubbish appeared to have come from a roofing job<\/p>\n
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The Bracknell incident is one of several recent high-profile cases of fly-tipping reported across the UK. <\/p>\n
In Willenhall, West Midlands, residents have described streets regularly covered in discarded furniture and household waste, while Oxfordshire saw a massive clean-up operation after a 500-foot stretch of waste appeared beside the A34 near Kidlington, costing millions to remove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bev Turner has reignited a debate over \u201cBroken Britain\u201d after reacting to a shocking fly-tipping incident highlighted by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15824,13,451,2125],"class_list":{"0":"post-34124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"tag-bev-turner","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-celebrity","11":"tag-presenters"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116558482931220265","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}