Skip Hire On The Tax-Payer For One MP

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MP’s expenses and skip hire, yes there is a link and the SkipHire.org blog has discovered it. When it comes to claiming compensation, those lot that trip over plastic wrapping tape have nothing on Totnes MP Anthony Steen. He had the highest expenses repayment bill totalling £11,211.75 – which included a claim for £117 paid [...]

Skip Hire Brings Mr Blobby To Grimsby

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Skip diving, skip dipping, scavenging, rummaging, recycling. Whatever you want to call it, taking stuff from a skip and reusing it is socially accepted and on the increase. A combination of tightened purse strings, unemployment and black market activity has led to people up and down the country flocking to their nearest skip and taking [...]

Today, as we occasionally do at the SkipHire.org blog we’ll be stepping across the pond to see how those USA types ‘do waste management’. Thoroughly exciting and part of our commitment to a worldwide positive attitude towards recycling and sustainable waste management.
Now, who says the USA isn’t kind to the environment? Not only are they [...]

Been keeping up with the 6 Nations Rugby? Whether you have or haven’t; you may well have seen the antics of one skip hire lorry driver reported in the national newspapers. Welsh back-row forward, Andy Powell, found himself arrested at 6am on Sunday morning at a service station off junction 33 of the M4 for [...]

A business that provides skip hire in Basingstoke has launched an appeal that aims to raise £10,000 in aid of the Haiti earthquake fund. For the entire month of February, Basingstoke Skip Hire & Southern Waste Mangement Ltd are going to donate £10 for every 3, 4, 6, 8 and 10 yard skip hired towards [...]

A skip hire boss from Barrow in Furness faces charges purjury after allegedly lying to a magistrates’ court about being on his mobile phone while driving. John Cooper, who’s company provides skip hire in Preston and Barrow, refutes all accusations saying that the cab had been fitted with a working hands-free system at the time [...]

A company that provides skip hire in Wigan has been fined £12,000 for operating a waste handling plant without the correct environmental permit. It’s not the first skip hire company to be caught operating illegally and unfortunately, it won’t be the last but it just goes to show that you can never be too careful [...]