SIR - I feel that your correspondent Dan Keeler (Chronicle letters, June 7) may have missed a point or two regarding our waste collection.

Don't let us forget that in one fell swoop we have had our ordinary rubbish collections halved and the council tax increased.

Where is the value for money in that?

Also, have we forgotten about the intense heat and humidity of last July, when temperatures soared to 95 degrees F (35 degrees C)?

The horrible smell and exposure to possible disease was unbearable after only two days, let alone 14.

It would indeed be interesting to note whether the Environmental Health Department had any views on this.

In a busy city of 37,000 people we are surely entitled as a basic minimum to a weekly waste collection and more often than that in hot weather.

William Kendall, The Close, Winchester.