EVERY Friday the weekly refuse is collected in our street.

The council has decided that in place of 'wheelie' bins, we will have to make use of the regulation black bin bags, which of course are regularly torn open by cats and rubbish is strewn all over the street.

The refuse collectors clear the bin bags but leave large amounts of rubbish on the street which consequently blows to the bottom end.

As a working person and council tax payer, I simply refuse to believe that I should be expected to clear up the burgeoning pile of refuse every Friday and sent an e-mail to South Ribble Borough Council and copied it to our local MP, David Borrow, asking the council to come and finish off what the refuse collectors had started.

I received absolutely no response from the council and when I came home from work in the evening, the rubbish was still piling up.

Please bear in mind that the local council have recently voted to increase their council tax to 21 per cent which is at least ten times the rate of inflation.

What can we as citizens do to make sure the council carries out the duties it is paid for?

Mr M Heald, Boundary Street, Leyland.