New bins for cigarette butts
Friday October 02 2009
Up to 300,000 cigarette butts are dumped daily on the capital's streets.
After forking out millions of euro every year scooping up smokers' litter, Dublin City Council has unveiled 150 special bins in a bid to stub out the problem.
Council officials said the smoking ban had led to more cigarette butts being dropped outside pubs and offices.
And tourism chiefs warned the city's dirty streets could keep visitors away.
Lil Wayne to face gun trial
Rapper Lil Wayne will go on trial in the US next year on drug possession and weapons charges.
The March trial date was set during a court hearing in Yuma County, Arizona.
Lil Wayne, aka Dwayne Carter, was arrested at a US Border Patrol checkpoint in January last year.
Authorities said they found cocaine, ecstasy and a handgun on his tour bus.
The rapper has pleaded not guilty.
