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The taxpayer is facing a hefty clean-up bill after tonnes of rotting rubbish and vast piles of nappies containing human waste were found inside an abandoned suburban house.

A man was killed on his 58th birthday while laying out cones for a traffic survey and today the victim's family said they did not want to see a jail sentence imposed on the driver of the lorry that killed him as there had been enough suffering in the case.