THE HEATWAVE has had an effect on Poole's bin collection teams and Borough of Poole has announced that they will be working from 6am from tomorrow.

Residents are urged to make sure their bins are out early as the crews will begin emptying them an hour earlier, until further notice.

They collect 16,000 bins every day, with each member walking up to 12 miles and they jumped at the chance to start earlier, before temperatures soar to over 30c.

Shaun Robson, Head of Environmental and Consumer Protection Services, Borough of Poole, said: “In the current weather conditions the welfare of our collection crews is our main priority, while ensuring that services are maintained to our residents.

“We have decided to start collections an hour early while the heatwave continues. We hope that residents will understand the exceptional circumstances that have led to this decision and ask that they put their bins out for collection by 6am on their collection day.”