A grandmother who left two items outside her property for a neighbour to collect was stunned to receive a £300 fine - for fly-tipping. Debra Turton was giving away her grandson's high chair and a car seat worth £200 to a nearby resident and had left them outside her property for them to collect on November 22.
But Debra, and her daughter Kerry McCulloch, were "flabbergasted" when the grandmother was hit with a fine for fly-tipping by Nottingham City Council. Because Debra, who lives in Bulwell, outside of Nottingham, has a shared driveway, she couldn't leave the items there, NottinghamshireLive reports.
Kerry, 40, said the high chair and the car seat were only left outside for a short period of time and there was no other rubbish around them - but a Nottingham City Council protection officer who was on patrol came and questioned what they were doing there. Kerry said the person who was coming to collect the items was running late because there had been a house explosion on a nearby street the same day and was delayed by police cordons in the area.
