As a resident in Bullhead Road, I feel compelled to write and express my anger at the 'bureaucratic sticker' left on my wheelie bin after the Tuesday collection.

The lid was slightly open (only because earlier in the year the bin men had managed to break it whilst loading it onto their cart), and I received the warning that there would be no more rubbish collections in the future unless I complied and shut my bin.

As far as I can see, I pay my Council Tax for my rubbish to be collected. Maybe, by the council refusing to collect from wheeled bins that are slightly open, I will start to pay less Council Tax!

It seems completely pointless that, if your rubbish is not collected, you should go to the local Allum Lane dump, only for the rubbish then to go to a landfill site eventually what would be achieved by that?

My newspaper blue box is brimming over, but no one has come to recycle it. If you phone the council all they will tell you is that it is policy end of story. To cap it all, we now have had the pavement dug up again (without warning) and now Hillside Avenue is closed for two weeks due to its new film location status. How is it we, the residents, are not allowed to upset the filming, but the council is at liberty to treat the local residents like "rubbish"!

Hertsmere get your act together.

A Jacobs,

Bullhead Road,

Borehamwood.

August 21, 2002 14:30