Drive 'blocked by wheelie bins'

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Wheelie bins were routinely left blocking a driveway after rubbish collections, a Coventry woman has said.

Emma Harper, from Keresley, said binmen left the bins at the bottom of her drive, meaning she had to move them all herself to get out, for almost a year.

She said it started after she had asked them to move the bins because they were blocking her way.

Coventry City Council has apologised and said it was not a prank. It added it would supervise the collections.

'Almost a competition'

Ms Harper said it started one morning when she shouted from her doorway and asked the dustbin men to move the bins as she needed to get out of her driveway.

"Then it escalated to almost a competition to see how many bins they could line up at the bottom of my drive," she said.

She added that when she asked some men collecting the recycling if they could move the bins, she was told they were the "wrong kind of bins".

In a statement the council rejected suggestions of a prank but said it would be supervising collections in the area for a while.