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As ratepayers we should expect our streets to be cleaned up by the council, regardless of how the rubbish got there. It is then up to the council to retrieve the cost by taking the person or persons through the appropriate channels to retrieve the said cost. They do this with fly tippers etc, they don't expect the closest resident to pay the bill.

That is a great idea! We need something in which decent poeple can show how they feel about hooligans like these two little twerps!!

Though your intentions are admirable, at any given time this council clean up after fly tippers whether it be builders rubbish or household rubbish, eg discarded couches etc, which are all dumped illegally and a criminal act so why is cleaning up after those two sods any different. If you want to show support for those residents you should get on to your MP or councilor.

Personally I think we should get into the lad's houses, flog everything they own and use THAT cash to pay for it.

Has anyone thought of trying to get someone from Wirral Borough Cretins, sorry Council, to do an interview on local TV about this? It would be good to see them try and justify the charging of innocent residents.

Oh to see someone from WBC squirm under "robust" interviewing.

It would however be quite acceptable to see them squirm as they "fell" under the front of a passing steam roller. Trouble is.... who would be charged to scrape the gunge up ?? Forget that.

I was thinking of sending the story to the Daily Mail - knowing that they would have a field day with it Oh and mention them selling our town hall off too

Go girl!!!

An online forum perhaps ?

That would be good but I personaly wouldn't know how to start one?

i probably do know somwthing you dont.

So?? I don't understand why you just say that - I think a lot of people do but can't post it on here!

I don't know anything you don't know.

And I know fook all.

Does anyone know?

The daily mail idea sounds great! I was interviewed years ago by them after they 'saw' an interview i did in the echo. (No,im not a 'c' celeb, i had a rare heart condition)

Random useless info...but...the merseyside police website helicopter logs do not show any mention of this incident. How odd.

Source: Wirral Globe


Council leader gets vandalism 'fines' waived after Globe reports Hillcroft Road residents' anger.

Council leader Steve Foulkes has ordered a plan to charge innocent householders for the clean-up of a road wrecked by teenage vandals to be scrapped, after it was exposed in last week’s Globe.

Cllr Foulkes said he believed civil servants at the town hall had gone into ‘automatic mode’, when they sent out bills for £117.34 to nine homes in Hillcroft Road in Poulton, Wallasey.

The invoices were for the cost of an outside contractor to clear the road, which was strewn with debris after two teenagers spent five hours evading police by sitting on a roof throwing torn off slates below.

The residents were stunned to the get the bills, and after the Globe printed their outrage on last week’s front page, Seacombe Labour ward councillor Adrian Jones and his party leader Cllr Foulkes demanded it be scrapped.

“I was contacted by a resident, and I took a personal interest in the matter,” said Cllr Foulkes.

“The officer concerned had gone into automatic mode and followed prodecure, but we’ve now reconsidered. What happened to the residents of Hillcroft Road that night was horrific, and in light of that we are prepared to waive the bill.

“The best thing to come out of these unfortunate events is that two young people have been caught, prosecuted and locked up.

“But it was a horrific that night, and as the Globe put it so aptly last week, we have no intention of adding insult to injury. Anyone who has received a bill will shortly receive a letter saying the bill has been waived.”