KINDHEARTED residents donated clothes to a charity only to find themselves overlooked during the collection.

Neighbours, in Heather Close, Locking Stumps, found their streets cluttered with bags full of clothing after the National Meningitis Trust failed to make the collection.

One resident Trevor Pendergast said: "They delivered the bags around the street and most people filled them with clothes and left them outside - but no-one picked them up.

"I left mine outside for a few days but then kids began picking through it so I brought it in.

"It has been a week now and no-one has bothered to collect all these bags. A lot of people are just giving them to other charities.

"It annoys me as the trust must have spent a lot of money having these bags printed up and it seems a great waste not to bother collecting them.

"A lot of people put in a lot of good quality clothing which the charity will now probably not get. It seems a shame."

A spokesman for the Meningitis Trust said "Unfortunately the distributors did overlook some areas.

"However we are now rectifying the situation and any bags that have not been collected should be picked up fairly shortly."

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