I HAVE just spent four hours trying to rid my black bin of maggots. We always put our rubbish in bin liners before we put them in the outside bin and yet we are infested!

We have house flies and blue bottles! These were a thing of the past. I wonder if food poisoning is on the increase since the introduction of a two week cycle for collection of bins. Is anyone else reporting similar problems?

Perhaps we should put our bins outside councillors’ houses – they voted for it we didn’t. I don’t remember this being in any political manifesto?

DAVID WASHINGTON Woolston