Editor’s Pick of the Week: Wheelie bin overload, scattered parcels and an upside-down dog

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We’ve had numerous crime stories, thawing snow and Kex Gill galore this week. But one of this week’s best-read stories has been about wheelie bins. 

Households will have up to four wheelie bins, including two for recycling, under new plans unveiled by North Yorkshire Council.

Some people with limited space are worried where they will all go. Perhaps now is the time to develop a niche as a wheelie bin designer who can transform the different coloured lidded receptacles into courtyard or garden features, like gnomes.

The soon-to-be-defunct blue bags and black boxes could perhaps be repurposed as plant pots or for growing spuds.

Another issue that matters is mail — the old-fashioned kind that is delivered through letterboxes. Or at least it’s supposed to be.

Huby, Weeton and North Rigton were turned into a “parcel graveyard” this week when a courier appeared to interpret ‘delivery’ as ‘chuck parcels from window’, judging by where they were found. 

Some didn’t even end up in the right county, as they were later retrieved from the Badlands of West Yorkshire.

The incident did at least bring villagers together as they helped each other hunt down lost items.

But even this story was less bizarre than the strange goings on that took place in a Knaresborough garden, where firefighters rushed to save a dog trapped upside down between a shed and a fence.

According to North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, firefighters used “airbags and hydraulic spreaders” to release the mutt, who escaped unharmed. 

How the dog got in such a pickle is unknown. It all goes to prove that often the mundane and the ridiculous appeal most of all to readers.