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Weekly bin collections are rejected
Monday 10th October 2011, 11:30AM BST.
Weekly bin collections will not return to thousands of homes in Staffordshire after councils today announced they were rejecting the offer of government funding to bring them back.
Controversial fortnightly collections will now remain for thousands of families in South Staffordshire, Stafford and Lichfield.
But council bosses in Cannock have revealed they are “interested” in the cash incentive.
Comunities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles said he believed every household had “a basic right” to have rubbish collected every week and announced councils would be offered a share of £250 million to end fortnightly collections.
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