RESIDENTS are being urged to keep on the lookout ahead of changes to bin collections.

Blackburn with Darwen Council's burgundy (general waste) and grey (recycling) bin collection days are changing as local authority bosses attempt to make the service more efficient.

And leaflets will go out to affected residents over the coming week.

A council spokesman said: "We are changing the burgundy and grey bin collection days to a number of properties within the borough, from Monday next week, to improve efficiency, following housing developments within the borough in the last two years and to cater for planned developments.

"Leaflets will be delivered to those affected for this Sunday, with the changes commencing from Monday 29th October, next week.

"The changes will be mainly to those who are currently on Monday and Thursday collections."

There will be no change to collection frequencies.

To check your collection day, go to https://mybwd.blackburn.gov.uk/pages/MyBins.aspx

Labour bosses made the unexpected decision to scrap weekly bin collections in 2016.

The Council announced that it was moving to alternate weekly collections of household rubbish and recycling in a bid to improveove recycling rates and reduce the costs of refuse disposal as well as refuse collection.

Last year, Cllr John Slater pledged that if the Conservative Party won back control of Blackburn with Darwen Council he would radically restructure and slim-down the authority to find the hundreds of thousands of pounds needed.

He said he would scrap the executive board and its annual £60,000 a year allowances for senior councillors, abolish the £128,000 post of deputy chief executive and return the council to a committee system.