MAY I add my own experience of rubbish non collection over Christmas?

We did not receive a gaily coloured calendar stating collection dates, so using our initiative we followed the calendar for 2014 and it was recycle box day on the Tuesday before Christmas.

We saw the lorry pull up outside and the boxes placed inside the gate onto our drive. Being a cynical person, I presumed they wanted a Christmas tip as they usually leave them on the path. (They didn’t get one!)

On closer inspection the boxes hadn’t been emptied. On contacting the council I was informed a) I had received a gaily coloured calendar, in fact the whole of York had; b) the recycle boxes were not emptied because there were no staff members to do it.

My husband and I had witnessed the boxes being put back into the drive and our elderly neighbour had also had her box put back into her garden.

I am still waiting for my reply from the council after informing them of this.

Chris Elliott, Layerthorpe, York.