Londoner Burcu Yesilyurt was left shocked when she was fined for pouring coffee down the drain - now her local council has backtracked and cancelled it after an uproar View 2 Images Burcu Yesilyurt was shocked when she was fined for putting coffee down a drain (Image: BBC)

A coffee lover who was told to pay £150 for pouring the remnants of her drink down a drain has had her fine cancelled, a council has said. Burcu Yesilyurt, of Kew, west London said she thought she was acting "responsibly" when she poured out the small amount of coffee from her reusable cup down the drain rather than risk spilling it on the bus she was about to catch to work. ‌

She previously called the fine “quite unfair” and “extreme”. She was stopped by enforcement officers in west London on October

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