A man harvested thousands of wild flower bulbs from a beauty spot so he could illegally sell them on the internet.
William Robson Adams, 64, who has now been fined £370, was brought to justice thanks to the vigilance of residents in Dalston, near Carlisle.
They raised the alarm after realising thousands of wild flowers were vanishing from a local woodland.
When police later raided Adams' end-terraced home at Great Orton, they found he had a stash of around 5,000 wild snowdrop bulbs.
Carlisle News and Star: Plant trader fined for illegally harvesting wild flowers from beauty spot
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