A REMINDER has been issued to households in County Durham about changes to bin collection days over Christmas.

Bins will be empties as normal up to an including Christmas Eve.

During Christmas week, bins due to be collected on Thursday will now be collected on Monday, December 29 and those due to be emptied on Friday will be empties on Tuesday, December 30.

The following week, all households will be subject to change.

Collections scheduled for Tuesday will now take place on New Year’s Eve, those due on Wednesday will take place on Friday, December 2, those usually emptied Thursday will now be collected on Saturday, January 3 and Friday’s collection will take place on Monday, January 5.

Normal collections will resume from Tuesday, January 6.

Anyone wanting their Christmas tree collected free of charge should contact 03000 261 000 before the deadline of January 9.