The wheelie bins are locked up and the bin chutes are too small for modern bin bags - now the council says to use smaller bin bags or face fines for dumping. Residents on a Sheffield estate where ...

“It was scary. I don’t get scared easy but that scared me. I’m not going up to the bin chute again.” The woman said other neighbours had recalled similar disturbing attacks where a man ...

Northumbria Police said the 23 fires at Cruddas Park flats in Elswick, Newcastle, had largely involved rubbish being set alight in bin chutes. No-one had been injured. A 55-year-old woman was ...