Wills also phoned
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Brian Wills driveway was deemed too steep for contractors to push bins up and down. “I told my neighbour everything that’s been happening, and the story that was done, and now he’s offered to help me with my bins,” Wills told
Stuff. “As a single person, I don’t fill my bins up as quickly as others, so they might not have to go out every week. But I’m very grateful. Without you [
Stuff] and Sarah [Thomson] and now my neighbour getting involved, I don’t know how I would have got on.”
And there they stayed – until this week. After failing to find a solution with council staff, Wills rang west ward city councillor Sarah Thomson last Friday and explained his rubbish predicament. Thomson shared Wills’ story with her husband, Lloyd Stockman, who was quick to lend a hand and wheeled Wills’ red-lid bin down to the kerb this week.
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