Fly-tip dummies

It’s all very well for Councillor Loakes to say that he is the best in the land at fining fly tippers. (Leading fly-tip fight, Opinion, December 14.) But precious little difference it’s making to us who have to live among the fleabitten, rat-infested trash and filth that gets put out there. Who’s doing it?

I recently stepped out of my front gate, only to find you’ll never guess what? No, not a mattress. No, not a broken chest of drawers. No, not even a split open bag of old bras.

A complete set of dummies dressed in mediaeval costumes, of the Middle Ages (approx 1250-1378) but, get this, they had no hands.

It gave me a start on a frosty morning.

What’s old Loakesy going to do about that, I ask myself?

Adelaide Arkwright, Selby Road, Leytonstone