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A pensioner who struggles to lug her bins from her garage to the pavement said she has been left dumbfounded by a string of missed collections.

Josephine Howard, known as Jo, says paper and cardboard was piling up at her home, in Middleton, after her blue bin was 'ignored' by council workers on several consecutive occasions.

But the 84-year-old has been mystified as to why all of her other collections - green waste, plastic and general - have been carried out as normal.

Jo believes old people are getting overlooked in society, and fears her abandoned blue bin is a prime example of this.

The Alkrington resident finds it difficult to walk after a leg break a few years ago. So when collection day rolls around on Tuesdays, she fears falling on the journey with her bin from t

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