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SIR - On Friday night, June 20, we came home from a night out to be greeted with the disgusting sight of maggots all over our front garden, over the two wheelie bins and the front door mat.

This appalling sight is a direct result of fortnightly bin collections.

We have a small baby in the house and four adults, therefore we create, as I'm sure many other households do, plenty of rubbish.

We normally put overflowing waste into black sacks and put it out with the general bin once a fortnight for collection.

We have to keep our bins in the front garden as we are in the middle of a terrace block and we have no back access. To make it easy, we leave them in the front garden. On the last general collection day, we put the black sacks out with the bin only for them to be left.

On phoning the council, I was told that they are not obliged to take the black bags so we had to put them back in the empty bin and of course that filled it up and we are back in the vicious circle.

Can you please ask the council how they can be justified in leaving us, and I am sure, many other residents, in these unhygienic conditions.

Does extortionate council tax not pay for weekly collections to be reinstated?

Mr and Mrs Elvin, Milverton Road, Winchester.

3:57pm Wednesday 25th June 2008

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