SWINDON Council has said sorry for giving the wrong information to residents about refuse collection days.

As we reported in Tuesday's paper, right, the reorganised rubbish and recycling bin service has been in chaos since it was launched on Monday, April 4.

The council has apologised for listing collection days incorrectly in its leaflet.

And it says it is doing its best to sort out the confusion across town.

Yesterday Swindon Council posted a leaflet through doors in Old Town.

It said: "We are sorry but your road was incorrectly listed in the leaflet."

The leaflet gave the correct dates for refuse, recycling and green waste collection.

A council spokeswoman said: "We would like to apologise to residents in this area for any confusion.

"The reason we have had to change collection days for certain roads is because we miscalculated the number of properties allocated to one of the rounds.

"We realised it was impossible for the waste collection crew to complete this round on the rota in the leaflet.

"So we have recalculated the rounds and let the residents in the area know their new collection days."

Alison Lovegrove, of Kent Road, is fed up with the confusion. The 30-year-old administrator, said: "According to this leaflet, we are going back to our original day, which was Wednesday."

And on the streets, leading off Kent Road residents have also been given the correction leaflets.

Peter Clack, of Ashford Road, thinks the council should be given a break.

The 34-year-old househusband said: "They have changed all of the systems so there are bound to be teething problems."

Meanwhile the council is planning to postpone the introduction of recycling schemes for flats.

A sum of £85,000 had been allocated for introducing these schemes for properties, such as flats, which cannot have the normal kerbside collections.

But the council's cabinet will next week consider postponing the schemes for a year as it tries to find extra savings.

Earlier this year the council decided it needed to find an extra £174,000 after going back on plans to charge staff to park and to increase burial and cremation charges by seven per cent.

Lyndsay Scanlan