Sir – Little old ladies, and many enfeebled oldies like me, can squeeze through their terraced houses and manoeuvre their green garden bags, so that our great, muscular refuse operatives don’t have to take any risks of straining themselves.

This, to a surprising extent, we have come to accept.

But, wrestle through with a big, unyielding brown wheelie-bin they can’t. Nor do they want to be bullied into paying for new bags at nearly £2 a time.

Two pounds is a day’s food for many (councillors go and research it!). To spring this on us without warning is a step too far.

It seems the Government agrees with us and legislation next month is to stop these impositions, but our local council website appears to think they will press on regardless. Not for me they won’t!

If, in the outcome, our council has to retract its brown bin ideas and leave us happy with our green bags, who was the bully who thought up and ordered the brown bins and who must now pay the cost of them? Should he or she still be in office?

Alan Broad, Headington