direct to your inboxAs rain thrashes the streets of south Manchester, a mattress lies abandoned and soaked in an alley off Whiley Street in Longsight.It's a prime example of the area's fly-tipping problem.It causes genuine frustration for residents like John Collins battling to clear the streets of garbage. “It’s a regular thing - it’s been going on for years,” John, from Longsight, tells the Manchester Evening News . “It’s always there.
The council will get someone to come and clean it up, but then more will return again the next day.”John is specifically talking about the ginnel between Whiley Street and Birch Lane.
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