A Llanfoist couple say they are fed up of carrying rubbish bags 300 yards up a steep hill every week for them to be collected.

Taxi drivers Nigel Webb, 58 and his wife Lynn, 32 live off Cemetery Road, with their house, Fisherman's Cottage one of two positioned down a lane past a cemetery and allotments.

Mrs Webb said: "A seven and a half ton lorry can get down or a transit van. We pay our council tax, so why shouldn't we get our rubbish picked up?

"It's hard work carrying the bags up in the evening and I have a two year old, so when I've got him, it's impossible to carry the bags up as well."

They have lived at the address for nearly two years and have now bought a trailer to take their eight weekly bags of rubbish to a council tip two miles away.

This is because their rubbish bags keep getting broken by local dogs who scatter waste all over Cemetery Road when it is left there.

"If they gave us a wheelie bin, at least that would stop the bags being broken, but we'd still have to push it all the way up and not all the rubbish would fit in it.

"I've seen trucks down at the cemetery working, so I don't know why they can't send one for our rubbish," added Mrs Webb who lives with her husband and children, Jade, 10 and Cody, two.

A Monmouthshire County Council spokesman said: "It is our policy to only collect rubbish from a public highway and the nearest to the Webbs is the junction on Cemetery Road. We don't provide wheelie bins and there is nothing to say we will in the future."