COUNCIL bosses in the Ribble Valley have promised a review of how they deliver bin bags after complaints from residents.

Parish councils contacted Ribble Valley Council to complain that the recent delivery of green waste bags, for garden waste accumulated during the summer months, was a shambles.

They say the bags were delivered in the same style paperboys in America deliver newspapers -- rolled up and fastened by an elastic band. As a result, parish council representatives from Clayton-le-Dale and Salesbury claimed, the bags ended up in hedges, trees and ponds rather than on driveways.

Alan Schofield, from Clayton-le-Dale, said: "We also have concerns about the delivery of the black bin bags. They don't always get put in a sensible place. They have been stuffed in hedges and around drain pipes. If it gets windy, they then blow everywhere."

David Morris, chief executive of Ribble Valley Council, said they would be reviewing the success of their new collection systems later in the year.