MPs attack bin charges 'retreat'

Plans for five pilot rubbish charging schemes mark a "wholehearted retreat" and should be dropped, MPs have said. The local government committee urged ministers to give all English councils powers to introduce their own schemes - as originally announced in May 2007.

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