A RESIDENT gave a helping hand to the council this week, ensuring locals get their peace and quiet by fastening notices to the local bottle banks.

William Luck, of Earley, visited the bottle bank on Kilnsea Drive, Lower Earley, on June 8, and found that notices placed by the council to ensure residents use the banks between 9am and 9pm, were coming loose.

Helpfully, he returned to the site to use stronger tape to keep the signs in place.

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Mr Luck said: "We cycled past the bottle bank in Kilnsea Drive this morning and noticed that Wokingham Borough Council have apparently put up some signs on the containers about being considerate of neighbours, and only using the bottle banks between 9am and 9pm.

"I am sure that the neighbours appreciate this, however, one sign had come off and the other two were hanging off by one piece of tape.

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"The signs had been fixed using just short lengths of duck tape, as a consequence the wind could get behind the signs and gradually force them off.

"I have returned and re-fixed the signs with tape along all four edges.

"I have advised the Wokingham Borough Council suggesting that the provision and fixing of these signs will need to be considered as and when the containers are swapped over."