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PA Library photo dated 04/06/2003 of litter. Britain needs special "green" courts and an environmental police force - to crack down on litter louts, graffiti artists and polluters, campaigners said Wednesday May 12, 2004. Keep Britain Tidy is to deliver this message to council chiefs at a meeting today at the Civic Hall in Leeds, warning that unless the country finds a more effective way of bringing offenders to book, taxpayers will continue to pay out hundreds of millions of pounds in clean up costs. See PA story ENVIRONMENT Litter. PA Photo.