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Now that the silly season is over maybe the newspapers will return to printing real stories at least loosely based on the facts, rather than some of the outrageous headlines with little or no supporting evidence that we saw in the summer. When the holiday season starts and Government is in recess the media has nothing to report and the written media, in particular, goes into overdrive to find a story, any story, which will fill column inches... and if it is bin or rubbish-related so much the better.rnAmong my favourites were the rescinding of the (non-existent) "bin taxes", the riot police patrolling the streets at collection time to ensure peace between irate householders and the bin men, and the refusal to collect bins with the lids open even a millimetre. I was about to say you can't make it up, but perhaps you can.