North East Derbyshire District Council has sent out a massive ‘thank you’ to all the schools and pupils who took part in a recent bin lorry naming competition.

The new names selected, which include Prime Binister, Binjamin Bunny and Bin Chillin’, will be printed on the front of a new wave of lorries being added to the fleet soon, according to the council.

Cllr Steve Pickering, Cabinet Member for the Environment, said: ‘We have been really impressed with the creative names chosen by the children for our new refuse vehicles!’

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