How amazed I was that my bin was emptied in appalling weather conditions. This is a true testament to the bin men who work for Worcester City Council and shows we were right not to outsource this work. Visitors from Guilford told me, quite unprompted, last weekend that Worcester City Centre was the cleanest place they had ever been to, a compliment I passed on to the city centre team and David Sutton their boss.

So I am saddened to see the Tories make comments in the Press to the effect that budget savings will result in a dirty city with bins un emptied. David Sutton assured councillors this would not happen. Based on this weeks splendid performance I am confident the future cleanliness of this city is in safe hands and I think it is important that we have a few more good news stories in the press at times like these

Mrs Chris Cawthorne

City Councillor St Johns