Dagenham, symbol of workers’ struggle throughout the free world, and now the centre of a new battle.

The battle between old lady and her bin men.

And it’s been getting a bit fruity, even by Dagenham standards.

Barking and Dagenham Post: Woman demands apology from “rude” bin men after they didn’t empty her green bin

I mean, all she did was put it out on the wrong week. And then ask them to take extra waste in a plastic bag even though she’s paid the £40 for the green waste service and **head explodes**

Because if there’s anything that the people of Dagenham love (apart from knife fights), it’s a damn good argument with your bin men.*

Bins, we have discovered, are the one thing that unites us all as a nation. Mrs Dagenham lady is not alone.

Reading Post: Bins left unemptied because bin lorry can’t reach them

Perhaps – you know – somebody could take their wheeled bins somewhere where the bin lorry could reach them.

No, that’s just stupid. Sorry, I’m an idiot for even thinking it.

Edinburgh News: Stay away from my bins, you kids! Unless you’re coming round to empty them, in which case ignore everything I just said

“Yer man from the news is coming to take my picture for the paper. Tell you what, I’ll find my best vest for the occasion.”

Plymouth Herald: Didn’t empty my bins? That’s a paddlin’

Not staying away from my bins, that’s also a paddlin’.

You’re going to get a paddlin’ whatever you do. Just empty my bins.

*Disclaimer: Your author’s great aunt lived in a tower block in Dagenham, which came with remarkable sunset views over the borough’s Great Mountain of Burning Tyres, now in its 78th year.