MORETON Town Council has complained about the state of public toilets in the town.

The council has again written to Cotswold District Council about the toilets in the High Street, after complaints from town councillors and the public.

Following an earlier complaint from the town council late last year, district council officers replied that the toilets were cleaned three times a day and that a new contractor had been appointed from the beginning of the year.

But town councillor Ben Jeffrey, who is also district council vice-chairman, said that he had inspected the toilets and found them to be in a poor state, with no toilet paper. On one occasion eggs had been smashed on the floor.

On Monday, he said he had been down to look again and they had not been cleaned.

He said he had received a letter from a Kenilworth man, who regularly comes to Moreton on business, complaining about the state of the toilets.

The man wrote that he visited the toilets on January 16 and found them almost unusable.

"The floors were extremely wet, the toilet paper damp and the overall integral appearance dark and dingy. I do not think that basic health and safety standards were being met," wrote the correspondent.

District council spokeswoman Julie Underhill said Bristol-based Glen Cleaning Company had taken over the contract for cleaning public toilets at the beginning of January.

"They have inherited problems and they are going to get together to timetable what they call a deep clean of each toilet block. Once they have achieved that this will be ongoing.

The district councillor responsible for public toilets, Sheila Jeffery, said she had fought strongly to have the Moreton toilets updated and that it is supposed to happen next year. The proposals include putting in unisex toilets, with external doors, which the public will have to pay to use.