Kind-hearted Olive Taylor is a champion of recycling who has raised thousands of pounds for charity by simply taking the time to pick up other people's rubbish.

She selflessly spends hours collecting aluminium cans from the streets.

What most people consider nothing more than litter, she regards as an opportunity to do good.

Two years ago, she presented the PDSA Pet Aid Hospital in Brighton with £30,000 she raised picking up so-called rubbish.

Raising so much cash means Olive collects thousands of cans and she needs somewhere to store them. Until now, she has kept them in plastic bags in her front garden, alongside other items.

Brighton and Hove City Council is keen to encourage people to recycle their rubbish but, in this case, it has decided Olive has taken its message too much to heart.

It says her collection is an unsightly health and safety hazard.

The 78-year-old has just a few weeks to clean it up, or face being evicted from the house she has lived in since childhood.

Perhaps the council should instead threaten to evict those who don't follow her lead on recycling.