Sandy Lester was a reporter for the Weatherfield Gazette who called at the Rovers Return Inn for the details on the story of the binmen's boycott of the pub. That had been caused when Annie Walker complained about Eddie Yeats and Johnny Webb talking about the contents of her bins and demanded they be replaced. In turn, all the Weatherfield's binmen refused to collect her rubbish and after several weeks the bags began to pile up in the yard creating a stench down the street.