It has significantly more capacity than the one it replaced, and was built when recycling was rising on many household agendas and, consequently, the amount of rubbish we were tipping in our black bins was falling.

So it comes as no surprise that waste contractor Veolia wants to also burn domestic rubbish from neighbouring Barnsley, Rotherham and Doncaster.

On the face of it, this is good: better burn their rubbish and turn it into electricity than dump it in landfill sites.

But the city centre location of the Bernard Road Energy Recovery Facility is without doubt the wrong place for such an operation. If this extension had been at the back of developers' minds at the time of construction, they should have said so. It's too late to move the rubbish goalposts.

Common sense, not vigilante actions
NO matter how much sympathy you have with a resident who took a chainsaw to a bench to stop teenagers gathering there, the fact remains that his actions are as anti-social as those of who intimidated people using the local beauty spot. Two wrongs don't make a right.

However, the police and local councillors, involved in the clean up of this area, should have included measures to ensure all the good work of local people would not be undone.

The situation does not warrant vigilante action. But it does call for good, old fashioned common sense.

Boot the squeeze
NEED evidence of the credit crunch? Look no further than your local car boot sale. For a survey shows that more Brits than ever are bargain hunting among the Sunday morning bric-a-brac brigade. But isn't there an irony here? If one of the biggest increases families struggle with is the rising cost of fuel, how do all those cars get to the sales area to open their boots in the first place?


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