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  Last Friday morning there was a black bag of waste dumped in Bench St outside the front of Atina House. It had been torn open by gulls and the pavement was strewn with all sorts of rubbish including what looked like some personal correspondence. Ah, I thought, some evidence to pinpoint the guilty party. So I phoned DDC, explained the precise location, (on the pavement, opposite Bench St car park, outside the front of Atina House, and requested quick action so that the fly tippers could be prosecuted). A few hours later the mess had been cleared so I assumed that action had been taken.
  
  Yesterday I had a call from a lady at DDC explaining that one of their operatives had followed up my call on Monday, (!) found no rubbish in the Atina House car park (!) and kindly informed me that even if there had been rubbish there they had no power to remove it as it would have been on private land. The bag which I had reported had obviously just been cleared by the street cleaner on his rounds.
  
  Further enquiry revealed that my original call had not been answered at DDC but at a call centre in Thanet. Then a written work order had been raised which was collected by the operative the following Monday. Apparently this is the procedure DDC use when hot on the heels of fly tippers.

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