Just a single council in England has responded to the crusade by the community secretary, Eric Pickles, against the "|town hall Tali-bin" by bidding for cash to return to weekly bin collections, according to new research.Pickles had claimed "most people would prefer to see a weekly collection" and his department found £250m in September to help the 42 per cent of councils not offering weekly collections to do so. But freedom of information requests to every council in England have revealed that only the Labour council in Stoke on Trent has bid for cash to fund a return from fortnightly to weekly rubbish pick-ups.
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