Things are starting to get back to normal as the Government backs a plan to fine people for putting litter in the wrong bins on the streets! Putting a crisp packet in a bin marked for cans could get you a fine of £110 and a court appearance if you refuse to pay the on-the-spot fine! That’s £30 more than …

At a time when people are being supplied with all sorts of different bags and bins for recycling purposes and half-blind pensioners are fined for putting the wrong coloured bottle into a particular recycling bin, the following may come as no surprise. Ron, who keeps us supplied with all the loony goings on back in the Asylum, carefully sorts the …

Mia Cousins, who lives in Fareham, was a little annoyed when she found that her four sacks of grass cuttings had not been taken away by the binmen and a note had been left saying they were ‘too heavy’. Seven stone Mia had had no problem carrying them the fifty metres to the roadside collection point and so she was …

The residents of Birks Road, a quiet Huddersfield cul-de-sac, were delighted when striking binmen went back to work as it had been one month since their rubbish had been collected and it was beginning to pile up.

Rubbish is forever making the news these days, one way or another, back in the Asylum. In Islington, the spies have been out and about, rummaging through the bins in 53 streets. The area in question is where the likes of the Lord Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, numerous High Court and Appeal Court judges and a host of famous personalities …