Sunday 10 October 2010

Retreat in Sandwell cigarette ash case

Over to Anna Raccoon for this story of how the blogosphere prevailed against Sandwell Borough Council. They have dropped the case of Sheila Martin, an elderly resident of the borough who was booked for dropping cigarette ash.

2 comments:

Eddie Douthwaite said...

I hope they didn't "drop the case" in the street causing litter. :)

Michael J. McFadden said...

Anna's blog seems to be down at the moment: she might need to renew the domain name? For the moment however the story is still available through Google's "cache" function at:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:aOrfNhNCRoAJ:www.annaraccoon.com/politics/fighting-them-on-the-sandwell/+%22sheila+martin%22+ash&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

- MJM