Bins were left overflowing in High Wycombe as a month almost passed before they were emptied.

Councils up and down the country are currently redistributing staff between essential services with the public sector being told to prepare for a worst-case scenario of up to a quarter of staff off work.

This has meant that bin collection services have been scaled back as workers continue to fall sick with the virus.

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An unhappy resident told the Bucks Free Press the bins at Edgecote House were not emptied between December 10 and January 4 despite "numerous emails, form filling and phone calls".

A council spokesman said that these bins were emptied on Christmas Eve but the resident argued that there is "CCTV over the bins so we can prove that they hadn't been emptied".

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The resident said: "There has been no explanation or excuse from those concerned.

"This has been an ongoing issue that never gets resolved."

The council said: “We apologise that there was some disruption to waste collection services in this area just before Christmas due to staff sickness, meaning some communal waste collections were delayed."