Council slaps gran with £600 fine over single cardboard box ‘fly-tip’
Carole has been fined £600 for ‘fly tipping’ a single cardboard box (Picture: SWNS)
A daughter has blasted a council after her elderly mum was threatened with a trial for ‘fly-tipping’ a single cardboard box.
Grandmother-of-four Carole Wright, 83, says she took some rubbish to a recycling drop-off outside her local community centre in Reading, Berkshire, in October – and claims she put it all into a recycling bin.
But days later, a letter from Kingdom, an environmental enforcement...