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E can all echo Marc Swan’s complaint about rubbish on the A-roads (). It seems that elf ’n’ safety is partly to blame for the situation. My county-councillor son tells me that partial road closure is required before litter pickers can be deployed to major roads without a hard shoulder. At

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