Fortnightly Collections, Tiny Overf Lowing Bins, Plagues of Super- Rats - a Biting New Satire by Frank the Binman ; ...Who's Really Penelope, Recycling Officer for a Council Forced to Back Down Over 'Alternate Weekly' Rounds

Mail on Sunday › March 09, 2008

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IT IS advertised as a work of fiction: a biting satire ridiculing devious politicians who scrap their town's weekly rubbish collections - and end up facing a residents' revolt and plagues of rats and maggots.

But today The Mail on Sunday can reveal that the author of the new book has been able to draw on some specialist insider information - as she works for a real council that has been forced to abandon just such a controversial scheme.

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Fortnightly Collections, Tiny Overf Lowing Bins, Plagues of Super- Rats - a Biting New Satire by Frank the Binman ; ...Who's Really Penelope, Recycling Officer for a Council Forced to Back Down Over 'Alternate Weekly' Rounds

And many of the developments in Maggots - A Binman's Woeful Tale echo concerns expressed by MoS readers during this newspaper's long campaign against cuts in waste services.

The book's plotlines include the emergence of a new breed of super-rat that fea...

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