No collections on Summer Bank Holiday Monday (August 31), mean recycling and rubbish services are one day later all week, including Friday pick-ups on Saturday, September 5.

The changes affects collections of recycling, refuse and garden waste, as well as assisted collections.

Residents should sort and segregate materials, ensure no recycling – especially food – is in the rubbish bin, and put all waste containers out by 7am.

Recycling sites remain on their usual timetables, with all 16 open 9am-4pm on the Bank Holiday Saturday and Sunday weekend.

Minehead will be open on Bank Holiday Monday from 9am-6pm but not Poole, near Wellington.

All kerbside collections return to their usual schedules from Monday, September 7. For details, visit somersetwaste.gov.uk