WELL, what will we hear next from our so-called hard-up city council?

They had all those small square bins made so you could recycle.

They scrapped them and gave everyone a blue bin. They brought in the large green hessian bags for garden waste which, I might add, were free.

Now they have stopped collecting them and they want us all to have another large brown bin for garden waste at a cost of £35 a year.

Why do they start these schemes for free and then you end up paying for them?

When you drive around it is an eyesore, seeing all the bins all over the place.

A lot of people have nowhere to put them other than the front of their property and God only knows how much more money the council have wasted in their hare-brained schemes.

However, it all proves a point. They rush into things: get bins and so on made and delivered, and then, further down the road, they decide that’s not what they really wanted. So everything changes again.

I have one thing to say to Oxford City Council. When you want to do something like the bins and bags, get it right first time. This is another way you can save money.

God knows how many of you sat round a table talking and got it all wrong.

P HOWARD (Mr, Brome Place, Barton Estate, Headingto