It’s crackers, the lunatics are running the asylum!

A FRAIL 79-year-old widow has been told she must drag her dustbins half a mile to be emptied,

Council chiefs informed June Kay they were introducing wheelie bins to households which had used to leave out rubbish bags for collection. And they say their new dustcarts are too big for her country lane. Outraged June — 80 next week - said last night: "I’m simply unable to do it. I am too old. I can just about manage to walk there and back, but only on fine days without carrying anything. I don’t know how I’m supposed to manage." For years dustmen drove 0.6 miles off a main road to reach June’s home at Rodhill Gate Farm, in Bolton by Bowland, Lancashire. Now the council is introducing two wheelie bins per house — one for recycling — with larger rubbish trucks. June, who pays a whopping £2,046 council tax per year, added: "We have our own sewage system, don’t have street lighting and maintain the lane ourselves — so we’re paying all this money just to have our bins emptied." June’s neighbour Harry Johnston has even been told he must share his bins with a family TWO MILES away — who must now make a four-mile round trip to drop off their rubbish. The 60-year-old, who lives in nearby Rodhill Lodge, said yesterday: "It’s crackers. The lunatics are running the asylum." Ribble Valley Council said: "If the bins are left at the end of a lane, householders can drop their waste in when they are passing. "We have to look at the most effective system that can be introduced at taxpayers’ expense."