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War veteran, 96, has rubbish uncollected for two weeks for 'crime' of putting two jars in wrong bin


A council refused to collect rubbish from a 95-year-old war veteran who is nearly blind - because he put a ketchup bottle in the wrong bin.

Lenny Woodward, a former Desert Rat who has lived in the same house for 58 years, was confused by a new regime of fortnightly collections and rigid recycling rules.


Residents have a blue wheelie bin for cans and cardboard, a green box for glass and a black bin for other waste.


Mr Woodward made the mistake of putting the ketchup bottle and a coffee jar in the blue bin when they should have gone in the green box.


Great-grandfather Lenny Woodward

Great-grandfather Lenny Woodward was snubbed by binmen who refused to empty his recycling wheelie bin


When binmen inspected the blue bin, they refused to empty it and attached a tag to it warning him not to break the rules again.