SIR – I fully support letters (September 17) with regard to bins as my nice clean household waste bin was stolen outside my flat door on bonfire weekend two years ago and, as I was informed by police at that time, burnt along with others.

I was not prepared as an OAP to have to pay £30 for a new one on principle and managed to purloin a very poor, cracked bin without lid as a poor replacement.

Politicians should really think hard before they make unwise comments.

G Steff, Wharncliffe Road, Shipley