DOES the council really expect us (the public) to swallow the garbage that it’s more environmentally sound for its road-sweepers to handpick weeds from out the gutter! Hogwash.

Newport’s Streetscene, street cleansing section is woefully understaffed and lacking vital road cleansing machines.

What the council is suggesting is physically impossible and just goes to show how ‘fat-cat’ bosses, on larger-than-life pay packets, really regard the current weed problems in Newport.

A. G. Williams Chepstow Road Newport