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Bin charging back on as Brown gets dizzy

Chip'n'bin misery for celebrity muckrakers foretold Reports this morning have it that government plans for bin charging are back on, after an apparent attack of cold feet by the Prime Minister last week.… ...full story at the register (uk)

from the register (uk) on Tue, Oct 30 2007

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