City of York Council is reminding residents that waste and recycling collections will be unaffected by the forthcoming bank holidays.

The council's waste and recycling collection teams will carry out all collections on the regular days, even where they fall on bank holidays in May and August. Information about collection dates has previously been distributed to all households in the city.

Geoff Derham, head of waste and cleaning services for the council, said: "Our crews will be working as normal throughout the bank holiday periods so there will be no disruption to waste and recycling collections during the coming months."