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By Daniel Hall A woman has been taken to court after allowing her garden to become a rubbish strewn wasteland filled with vermin. Sarah Louise Richardson found herself in the dock at Newcastle Magistrates’ Court due to the state of her back garden. Neighbours complained it had become a blight and a health risk by attracting disease-spreading vermin. Photos of the property show a pile of bulging rubbish bags dumped in the garden with unruly weeds growing between them, reports Chronicle Live. Throughout 2023, Northumberland County Council received complaints about the build up of household waste…

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