What a fantastic service they provide too. I had a new motorised satellite system installed last year and ended up with the old 1m sized dish which required disposing of. I placed the dish outside the gate at the front of the house and it was gone within an hour

Folk in the UK moan about having to separate out their recycling & also about having to put their bins out on the street, imagine the uproar if they had to traipse out to a communal bin away from their own homes.
Most folk seem incapable of finding litter bins judging by the amount of waste on the roadside.
Other than third world countries we must be the the most litter strewn nation in the world.

Surely one of the benefits of being a former dictatorship ... Anyone moaning about bin collections and having to use the communal bin at the end of the street under the Generalisimo, would have found themselves being brought back in to line / disappearing very quickly afterwards.

The other legacy is that you have a public service that mean the tourists all go "Bloody 'ell, they're doing the bins here at 3am" or for waking up said tourists in the middle of the night with all the clanging etc.

Think they've got this ruling a little bit wrong TBH. A lot of the animals kept in council properties are cleaner and less dangerous than some of the tenants. In the interests of fairness it should be only two kids allowed as well or that's downright discrimination. I know what I'd rather have next door, Old Mr's Bradys' 4 cats rather than the local chavs 3 devil kids.