West Berkshire Council is urging residents to responsibly recycle textiles by donating saleable clothing items to charity shops or by using registered charity collection banks or council-provided collection points across the district. The emergence of several unaffiliated textile banks across the district is being investigated due to suspected false claims that they ‘support people in need’. Clothing banks spotted in Milton Keynes and Northampton in the past have shown some containers were owned by a limited company and not a charity. Stuart Gourley, (Lib Dem, Newbury Clay Hill),executive memb…