Fly-tipping reports in one part of Manchester increased by a huge 126 per cent during the first half of 2021, the city council has revealed.
Out of 10 city hotspots there were 1,247 requests from people in Moss Side to clear dumped waste between January and July - up from 551 during the same period last year.
But the area hardest hit by fly tipping during the first six months of this year was Harpurhey with 1,569 incidents and Levenshulme, where numbers rose by a third to 1,386. READ MORE : Homeless shelter near Manchester's Green Quarter 'inappropriate', residents say In Gorton and Abbey Hey, where in September a huge pile of rat-infested rubbish was discovered in an alleyway, figures rose by a quarter to 1,209 over six months.
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