The Evening Standard takes out the trash. Barely hours after publishing our front page illustrating the festering piles of rubbish (and only hinting at the smell) in London’s East End, Tower Hamlets council reached a deal with striking refuse collectors.
Workers are now returning where for the next few weeks they will be joined by private waste contractors employed by the council to catch up on missed collections and street cleaning. And it has not come a moment too soon, with bags containing rotting food and discarded nappies lying in mounds up to six feet high on some roads.
