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Tory austerity is largely to blame for hard-up councils switching to fortnightly­ and even three-weekly bin collections.

Communities would be cleaner if weekly bin rounds returned, retaining the spread of sorting refuse for recycling.

Reported surges in fly-tipping, rats and people burning waste are not good for the environment­ yet are the entirely predictable consequences of what can only be described as a rubbish policy.

The political party which promised in an election manifesto to restore weekly bin collections­ could clean up.

Local authorities would need the resources to do it but imagine the value of the extra jobs, cleaner streets and gardens plus savings from dealing with fly-tipping­ and other problems.

Let’s bin fortnightly rounds.

Coup faced

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Theresa May will stand up in Parliament today and, if her voice holds, treacherous Tories will cheer to the rafters an incompetent­ Prime Minister that many are desperate to ditch.

To be loyal in public and disloyal in private is the position also of those unscrupulous Cabinet Ministers who can’t wait to see the back of the despised leader who lost their party’s majority at the General Election.

Everybody knows May’s on her way out, including the European Union’s Brexit negotiators­. Our country needs strong leadership­ and it is a national tragedy we’re lumbered with such a weak Premier.

Probe needed

Evidence the Football Association in England was warned as long as 22 years ago that heading a ball could result in dementia must be worth a wider inquiry.

The fact that so many former 1966 World Cup winning stars suffer the disease could be a terrible coincidence. It not we may need to reassess how the game is coached and played, particularly for younger players.