Missing wheelie bin leaves new mum up to neck in nappies (From Winsford Guardian)

Missing wheelie bin leaves new mum up to neck in nappies

11:20am Saturday 4th July 2009

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A NEW mother is quite literally up to her neck in nappies after her wheelie bin went missing.

Lauren Heath, 22, of Victoria Square in Greenfields, Winsford, asked Cheshire West and Chester Council for a replacement and was given lilac plastic bags to tide her over.

But six weeks and 252 nappies later, the monther-of-two is till without the vital necessity.

With a 16-month old baby and a toddler of three-and-a-half, she is struggling to cope with the mounds of rubbish building up in her front yard, and fears it could become a health hazard.

She said: “I’m frightened of a dog coming along and ripping one of the bags open, or of rats being attracted to all the waste.

“It’s humiliating because all our personal, private rubbish is piled up in my front garden because the bin men can’t get round the back.

“Anyone could have a root through my private stuff, it’s embarrasing.

“It looks horrible and the hot weather is going to make it stink. I know it might sound like a trivial issue but it’s driving me mad.”

Lauren said the council told her a new bin would be sent out within 10 working days after she reported her’s missing. In the meantime she has had to keep a look-out for the binmen who do not know to collect the plastic bags.

She added: “If I didn’t go out and tell them I’d have an even bigger problem on my hands because they wouldn’t have taken them.

“I’m so busy with everything at the moment that this is just too much.”

A spokesman for Cheshire West and Chester Council said a new wheelie bin has since been delivered to her.

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