Angry Claire's £359 bill to shift skip left on lawn for 60 days
The Sentinel
|June 21, 2025
NHS worker' s wrangle over removal cost
ANGRY Claire Willatt has been left hundreds of pounds out of pocket - after paying a rival firm to empty the skip left on her drive for 60 days.
The 57-year-old NHS worker paid £264 to Staffordshire Waste Recycling Centre to hire the skip for a week. It was delivered on April 10 - and was still in her Penkhull front garden nearly two months later.
Now she has forked out another £359 to have it emptied.
Mrs Willatt says the experience has been a 'living nightmare' - and is now threatening court action to get her £623 back.
"It's been absolutely awful - just awful," she said. "And to the people who laugh or say that I'm kicking up a fuss over nothing, let's see how you feel when you have a great big dirty skip dumped outside your house for ages. It's not just having the skip there which has made it so bad.
This story is from the June 21, 2025 edition of The Sentinel.
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