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RECYCLING OUTRAGE

Anger over TV revelations that waste goes to Far East

INVESTIGATIONS by the Islington Tribune have revealed that newspapers, bottles and tins diligently separated by environmentally concerned homeowners pass through a chain of at least five stages and three separate companies – each of which take a cut of council tax payer cash – before it ends up in Indonesia.
Our inquires follow the damaging allegations in a BBC TV documentary on Monday which described how waste for recycling has ended up in a lorry container in Jakarta.
The Lib Dems were last night (Thursday) fighting a rearguard action against a “scandal” which could prove enormously damaging.
The Lib Dems’ environment chief Councillor Bridget Fox told this paper that she did not know what happened to the waste in Indonesia and has launched an urgent inquiry.
But she added that as long as it was being recycled, she did not mind that was transported to the Far East.
Part of the problem for the Lib Dems is the chain of companies who subcontract the disposal of the waste once it leaves your doorstep.
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Ten-year-old faces race rap

A 10-YEAR-OLD Holloway boy has been arrested for racially abusing and assaulting his neighbours.
The child and his brothers, aged 13 and 15, were picked up by police at their home near Liverpool Road following a string of complaints by Turkish, Punjabi and Asian neighbours.
The news comes two weeks after an eight-year-old boy robbed a student at knifepoint on the Highbury Estate.
Detective Sergeant Paul Kingdon, of Islington’s Community Safety Unit (CSU), said: “It is unusual to arrest someone at the age of 10 on these charges. In fact, even the 15-year-old would be the youngest we have arrested for these kinds of offences. But we may be able to charge them with eight or nine offences.”

 



Paris is still No.1 in the wine world

PARIS, sera toujours Paris, sang the French singer and Hollywood star of the 1940s Maurice Chevalier.
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Give our school kids a sporting chance

DON’T know about you but I hated sport at school. It was all that prancing around in your knickers...
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