A nurse has been fined £1,000 after leaving an single envelope next to communal bins at her home which were overflowing.

Loretta Alvarez, 26, was accused of ‘fly-tipping’ by her local council, who saw her address on the cardboard packaging.

The single mother of a two-year-old says she does not have enough money to pay the fine, and is willing to go to court to clear her name.

Saying she would ‘never intentionally’ leave rubbish out in the open, she said she thought she was doing the right thing by leaving it next to other cardboard which had been left to the side of the full bins in Feltham, west London.

She told the BBC: ‘I don’t have that money to give, I can’t afford getting into debt to pay it, and I don’t want to get a mark on my record.

‘I’m a mental health nurse, I went to univ

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