Bradford Council’s three gully-cleaning wagons are out of action one day in every five. The wagons, which clear roadside drains of soil, dead leaves and rubbish, were out of action for 435 days ...

Derby City Council is to buy a new gully cleaning lorry after it emerged it only had one specialist vehicle to keep more than 40,000 drains unblocked. The authority agreed to purchase the lorry when ...

A council cabinet member has promised a more efficient, targeted, “data led” programme to clean its 32,000 gullies after regular complaints they are blocked. But at the same time a report by cabinet ...