Refuse and Recycling collections are to stay weekly, your Focus team are pleased to report.

Liberal Democrat-run Oadby and Wigston Borough Council is now one of the few authorities in the country to offer weekly collections for residents.

Cllr. David Carter said, “Local residents tell us in council surveys that they want black wheelie bins with weekly collections. I’m delighted that we will keep weekly collections when new black bins are introduced in the summer.”

None of the other district councils in Leicestershire have weekly blag bag/bin collections and elsewhere in the country, councils collect this rubbish every two, three or even four weeks.

Despite cuts over successive years by the Conservative Government, David Carter and other Liberal Democrat councillors have carefully managed scarce local government funds and safeguarded weekly collections in Oadby and Wigston.