A fed-up Colchester resident has complained to the council about litter - every week for 17 years.
Amazing - Des McCarron, whose wife Eleanor has rung Colchester Council every week for 17 years to get Harwich Road cleaned, says the work has just been done. Picture: SEANA HUGHES (44930-a)
Eleanor McCarron, of Harwich Road, hates the litter dropped in her road. She has phoned Colchester Council calling for action - at least once a week since 1988. But she said the road is still filthy.
"There are bottles, food and litter all over the pavements and in the gutters," she said.
"It blows into people's front gardens and looks awful. I've phoned up the council several times every week for the last 17 years about it. Colchester is supposed to be tidying up and be one of the cleanest and greenest boroughs, but nothing gets done about it."
After the years of complaints, moments before a Gazette photographer arrived to take pictures of the area, someone turned up and began picking up the rubbish.
Mrs McCarron's amazed husband Des said: "This is what she's been asking for all these years."
Dave McManus, Colchester Council waste and transport manager, confirmed Mrs McCarron had regularly called the council for at least three years he was aware of and said he had even been to meet her.
"I have every sympathy with her," he said. She wants a clean, tidy environment and we want exactly the same."
He said the council strived to achieve a high standard of cleanliness throughout the borough.
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Published Thursday, September 15, 2005
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