SIR - Recently my black bin was not collected. It was put out for the bin men but the lid was not closed.

When I employed a little pressure on the lid it closed, but I had to wait a further two weeks for the bin to be emptied. By this time it was full of maggots.

In another situation regarding rubbish, a friend took an old three-piece suite to the tip in his van. He's a florist and the van has a sign written on it; he was not allowed to tip the suite because he was in the van. As you can gather, it would not fit in his car. Surely these kind of incidents will only encourage fly-tipping?

C E AMPHLETT, Worcester