If the United Nations did not have enough on its plate already mediating in Iraq and the Middle East, a new dispute has emerged to tax its dispute-solving powers -- over the size of Edinburgh's dustbins.

The latest call for UN intervention follows angry confrontations between residents and council workers in the Scottish capital following the installation of large, wheeled bins in some of the city's most historic streets, a report said on Friday.


Locals are angry at the size of the new six foot (1.8 metre) bins, saying they are inappropriate in a part of the city which has been designated a UN World Heritage Site, the Edinburgh Evening News said.


Now residents have been told that UN cultural organisation UNESCO which monitors such heritage areas, is to step in and inspect the dustbins over the coming summer.

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What a wonderful and productive way to use tax payer's money in my homeland