Only a council with money to burn would supply every household with plastic bins for newspapers.

Most people do not want them. Elderly people find them too heavy to carry and not everyone has newspapers anyway.

The ones who do can usually find a way of disposing of them.

If Brighton and Hove City Council has any more spare cash, how about clearing up the arches at the bottom of New England Hill?

There has been dumped rubbish under there for years. What an eyesore that area is - but it is just one of many.

If only the council used taxpayers' money on necessary things that urgently need doing. Instead, it lives in cloud cuckoo land.

-C A Henville, Downs Valley Road, Woodingdean