A second group of residents has dumped their rubbish in the street in desperation at being forced to live next to a growing pile of rotting binbags.

When Brighton and Hove City Council announced it was changing residents' refuse collection days they said it was to make their service better.

They asked for time to get it right and warned the changeover might not go without a hitch.

They weren't wrong.

Leaflets warning residents of their new collection days dropped through the wrong doors, crews got lost, trucks broke down and the sight of abandoned binbags returned to haunt Brighton for the second summer in succession.

With the service back in the hands of the council, the public assumed it would be back to basics with clean streets and rubbish collected on time.

Binmen, unions and the council hailed it as a new start. What the people of Brighton and Hove want is an end to the problems and fast.