Newcastle-under-Lyme had the largest number, with nine bins, bags and boxes.

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The council said crews were unlikely to collect waste that did not fit in bins or boxes left out, and this was part of the ongoing disruption.

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Two, three, five, eight, eighteen Hastings-on-Hudsonians lumbered in to check their boxes, sort circulars into recycling bins, greet the postmistress, and trade coins for stamps, each of comically tiny denominations.

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