Now we really have heard them all. Leaves on the line, the wrong kind of snow - none of these excuses holds a candle to the reason binmen gave for not emptying Brian Watson's green bin.
The leaves inside were frozen, they told him.
Frozen leaves, it seems, tend to stick - and for health and safety reasons binmen can't reach in to loosen them.
Which raises the question - with winter coming, what will happen to the hundreds of green bins across York which are bound to freeze?
A case of the wrong kind of common sense, we'd suggest.
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