Two pensioners threatened with £1,000 fine for leaving out charity clothing bags

Barbara and Margaret left out bags to be picked up by a children’s charity (Picture: SWNS)

A council threatened a pair of pensioners with fly-tipping fines after leaving bags for a children’s charity outside their homes.

Pensioners Barbara Wheeler, 73, and Margaret Bull, 84, were accused of ‘fly tipping’ after trying to donate to a disabled children’s charity.

But two weeks later, they both received letters from enforcement firm Kingdom – on behalf of Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council ...