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You just couldn't rake it up

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006560416,00.html

By JOHN COLES
December 06, 2006



A TEARFUL woman was accused of littering — for sweeping leaves from a COUNCIL tree into a pile.

Streetsweepers REFUSED to remove the heap at the end of Sandra Pote’s drive because some had fallen into HER garden.

Sandra, 61 — who for years has brushed leaves into a pile in the gutter — thought she was doing the cleaning truck crew a favour as they drove down the road in Torquay, Devon.

But she was accused of fly-tipping. Furious husband Malcolm, 61, said yesterday: “She was in tears.”

Torbay council insisted the couple should have taken the leaves to a tip.

A spokesman said: “Householders have a responsibility to deal with leaves on their property.”