THIS image shows household items dumped at a Borders beauty spot.

During a walk on Wednesday (November 4), Mike Pearson was shocked to come across a "blatant" case of fly-tipping at the Meldons in Peeblesshire.

The rubbish included various children's toys, a fan and a vacuum cleaner.

Mr Pearson told this newspaper: "It's pretty terrible and a bit of an eyesore.

"We were out walking the dog and that's not something you want to come upon."

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Scottish Borders Council's neighbourhood services team can handle instances of fly-tipping on public land, but they have no control over private land.

In a bid to help identify the landowner, Mr Pearson shared a photo of the rubbish on a community Facebook page.

He said he had not come across littering on such a scale before at the Meldons, a popular spot for picnics and camping.

The retired business director said: "[The Meldons are] prone to this kind of thing.

"[Littering is] never as obvious as that – you get broken glass and miscellaneous rubbish.

"This was obviously not left by campers.

"I wish it [rubbish] wasn't there."