What a way to start the new year! More uncollected rubbish and more pathetic excuses from SITA.

If you have yet to find your rubbish collected on time following the new collection arrangements, I suggest you make use of a little known regular collection service from the bins along the promenade.

Alternatively, if you do not live near the seafront, you could always take your rubbish to one of the town halls from where I am told rubbish is also collected regularly.

If, as I suspect, the council is not happy with this arrangement, perhaps it will finally do something about this ridiculous state of affairs.

-Mike Snewin, St Aubyns, Hove