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Should you be fined for an untidy garden? The Mail reports this morning people who use their gardens as a dumping ground could face on the spot fines of 拢100. Would you welcome this new power?

Is your neighbour's garden an eyesore? When you look out the back bedroom do you see immaculated manicured lawns or a tip? And what about the front of the houses? Old fridges and sofas, weeds everywhere - is it a jungle out there? Is there one family that blights the whole street?

You can already be fined for leaving your rubbish bags out when it is not bin day. A couple from Yorkshire were recently fined 拢700 for leaving bags and bags of rubbish in their front garden. Another man was fined 拢400 for leaving old furniture and paving slabs strewn across his garden.

Is it right to fine people when their garden is a tip?

This morning we speak to Lauren Richardson who is only seven, but she has already been on more adventures than most of us will complete in a lifetime. She has kayaked along the River Medway in a the middle of a thunderstorm, climbed some of the highest mountains in England and completed a 120-mile canoe trip. However, Lauren's biggest challenge is yet to come.

Next month, the Hoo St Werburgh pupil will be attempting to canoe 135 miles down the River Thames.

We hear your views and stories.