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£75 fine for dropping a Wotsit Anil Dawar / London Telegraph | May 4 2006 A woman has been fined £75 for throwing a Cheesey Wotsit out of her car window. Hilary Buckland, 46, was seen throwing the crisp into the road by a council official driving behind her. Officials traced her number plate and she was sent the fixed penalty fine and warned she could face court if she did not pay up. Mrs Buckland, a mother of five and grandmother of six, from Luton, was carrying her three nephews and her niece in her Vauxhall Cavalier when she was spotted flicking the Wotsit out of the window. She said she had ditched the crisp after one of the children threw it on to her lap while she was driving. Mrs Buckland said: "I got a letter saying that, to date, the council had incurred £298 costs. That means the council has spent £223 to collect the £75 fine. If I had gone to court I would have got legal aid and would have been given time pay, it would have cost a fortune. "My gripe is all that taxpayers' money [has been spent], that has really got to me." Jon Maddox, the Luton borough council's enforcement manager for street services, said: "It does not matter if it was a cigarette butt or a Wotsit. The council has invested significantly in a cleaner Luton. I do not intend to let a small minority of litter louts take us a step backwards and will take action against anyone I hear of dropping litter." ---------------------------------------------------
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