{"id":433799,"date":"2026-02-19T08:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/433799\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:31:13","slug":"fines-dropped-for-tonbridge-pair-leaving-charity-bags-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/433799\/","title":{"rendered":"Fines dropped for Tonbridge pair leaving charity bags outside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Council leader Matt Boughton, who apologised, added: &#8220;We are urgently reviewing the circumstances to ensure this does not happen again and will continue to work with the residents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Wednesday, Wheeler said: &#8220;I had one of the councillors turn up, they&#8217;d had a meeting this morning and said it&#8217;s all been thrown out and you should never have been fined in the first place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She confirmed Margaret&#8217;s fine had also been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wheeler said a council enforcement officer had come to Margaret&#8217;s house after the clothes were put outside on 29 January and accused her of obstructing the pavement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wheeler said the officer frightened her neighbour by saying he had a camera and that everything she said could be used as evidence in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Council leader Matt Boughton, who apologised, added: &#8220;We are urgently reviewing the circumstances to ensure this does not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-433799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}