An inspired advert by Keep Britain Tidy stars a mallard on a mission. The duck watches as a man on a bench next to a city centre canal screws up his crisp packet and places it into a bin.

But the suited snacker also drops a cigarette and twists his shoe on the butt to put it out. The duck tracks him to his office, then on a bus, as he gets increasingly anxious. Finally he gets home relieved to have shaken off his pursuer. But the front door bell of his house sounds and the bird is standing there outside - the butt next to his webbed feet.

It cleverly makes the valid point that cigarette stubs are litter too.

Manchester City Council are very keen to enforce this fact. But in doing so they made a catastrophic mistake which left an innocent man currently with a criminal record.

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