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The council argued its environmental permits would forbid any attempt to excavate the site for the search and previously said such work "would have a huge negative environmental impact on the surrounding area".

Unwilling to give up, Mr Howells now believes he has two options open to him to retrieve the digital wallet – launch a case at the Court of Appeal, or work with investors to try to buy the landfill site from the council, after it announced the site is "coming to the end of its life" and it plans to close it within the next two years.