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| Subject: Father fined for overfilling bin Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:38 am | |
| A father-of-four has been left with a criminal record for overfilling his wheelie bin by four inches.Gareth Corkhill, 26, of Whitehaven, Cumbria, received a £110 fixed penalty notice after Copeland Council staff photographed his raised bin lid. When he refused to pay he was taken to court where magistrates added a further £115 to the fixed penalty. Mr Corkhill said the authority recently switched from weekly to fortnightly refuse collections, but added that the supplied bins were not big enough to cope. Full Story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/7360147.stm | |
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