Now, so help us, the aristocracy will have to push their wheelie bins to the end of their sometimes lengthy drives.
Scottish Borders Council has discovered to its dismay that its dustbin lorries have been travelling an extra 14,000 miles a year to collect the rubbish of lairds whose back doors are often far from the road.
Ordinary Borderers always had to haul their rubbish to the gate, but for years the council has emptied the bins at the doors of private estates. The service will end in April.
Shouldn't be a problem, don't they have servants for that sort of thing anyway?
# posted by John Schroeder @ 12/12/2005 05:20:00 AM
