A 90-year-old partially sighted Otley man is at his wits end over uncollected rubbish.

Geoff Carr, who lives on Leeds Road, received two wheelie bins, including one for recycling, in November last year.

Because Mr Carr is partially sighted he was not able to move the bins every week to the allocated collection point some distance away from his house and asked to stick to the old system.

He had the bins removed by Leeds City Council - but now his old style dustbin has been left unemptied for almost two months.

"They delivered two bins to me, but because I'm not able to see and asked for them to be taken away.

"They came the next day and took them away, but now my old dustbin has been left for two months."

Mr Carr said friends and family and even charity Help the Aged had called the council on several occasions and been told that the situation would be dealt with in 48 hours.

"Every time people ring up for me, they say it will be dealt with in 48 hours, but its always the same, nothing is done."

Mr Carr said he was dealing with his rubbish as best he could by disposing of it himself.

"My niece who comes over from Holmfirth has been taking part of it and whenever I go out, I take some.

"I've a relation in Ilkley who rang someone from Help the Aged and they rang the council. They said if it wasn't gone in 48 hours to ring again, but it's still there.

"I'm just glad it isn't the summer, I would be worried to death."

Yesterday, Leeds City Council apologised to Mr Carr and blamed a break down in communication for his bin not being emptied.

Town councillor John Eveleigh, chairman of Otley Action for Older People (OAOP) blamed the city council's call centre.

"There is obviously an issue with the council's call centre. Messages are not getting through.

"I had this problem before Christmas when the whole of Billams Hill were not getting their rubbish collected. People were calling the call centre and being told it would be sorted and it wasn't. To be fair, when I got onto the officers involved in cleansing, it was sorted out speedily, they just hadn't got the messages."

Coun Eveleigh said he had every sympathy with Mr Carr.

"You can understand why he can't cope with a wheelie bin at 90 years old."

A spokesman for Leeds City Council said: "We apologise to Mr Carr for any inconvenience he may have suffered with his bins.

"This is obviously an unacceptable situation and we will be ensuring that his rubbish is collected as soon as possible."