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Council leader responds to Litter Busters collection concerns Date published: 29 April 2021
Some of the bags of rubbish collected by the Failsworth Litter Busters volunteers which have now been collected by the council
A dedicated community group – the Failsworth Litter Busters – have been left puzzled by Oldham Council’s request for them to ‘hold off’ carrying out their collections.
The council’s Environmental Services department sent an email message to one of the FLB volunteers indicating that no more collection bags would be provided because staff are ‘very stretched covering our scheduled work and are struggling to keep collecting bags’.
Admitting their decision ‘may seem a little unfair’, Environmental Services ‘just cannot cope with so many reports to collect bags’.
The Covid hotspots in Greater Manchester - and the neighbourhoods just next door where case rates are low
The highest numbers of Covid cases in the region were recorded in parts of Manchester Central in the week to January 29..
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Covid cases are rising in some neighbourhoods across the region - while other areas like Castlefield are seeing very low rates.
The biggest hotspots in the region were recorded in parts of Manchester Central in the week to January 29..
Victoria Park had 68 new positive tests - the highest of any ward in the region. That s an increase of 21 cases on the previous week, taking the rate to 459 cases per 100,000 people.
The latest coronavirus hotspots in Greater Manchester
An interactive map reveals the number of coronavirus cases in each local area
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The number of new coronavirus cases is falling in every part of Greater Manchester.