Hello. This Christmas as a treat for the residents of Beckworth your enterprising and ethical local council are offering waste food-recycling bags as the top prize in it’s Yuletide raffle. Tickets only cost £2 each, minimum spend £10 per household, with all the money raised going towards refitting the council offices’ canteen. Other prizes in the raffle are bags of grit to keep paths free of ice, lunch with me (the mayor) and a months free use of the local library. So get a move on, the tickets are literally selling themselves! Merry Christmas, G. Grimsby. Mayor

(Above) Recycling bags the top prize in the council’s yuletide quiz