The Hull Daily Mail report:

ALMOST 9,000 missed bin collections have been reported by households in Hull in just four months.

The figure for the period between April and July has been revealed in a Freedom of Information (FoI) response by Hull City Council.

It suggests widespread problems were caused by the switch from weekly to fortnightly black bin collections for non-recyclable household rubbish.

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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.