I LIVE on Poole Road and am constantly distressed at the amount of dirt and rubbish along the route from Westbourne to the Branksome roundabout.

Why don’t we have street cleaners with a brush any more?

The little van comes along and sweeps, but there is a small mountain of rubbish beside every street sign, behind the cable boxes, tucked into the bus stops along the route, weeds, food cartons etc, that need to be picked up with an implement, or brushed with a stiff brush.

Outside Tesco, along the bushes there are food containers, and plastic bags; by the bus-stops there are cigarette ends and wrappers.

V MADDEN, Poole Road, Poole