I am a school superintendent. With the school day and lettings (community use of the building), I work a 49-hour week in term-time and a 44-hour week during holiday periods (the building is actually in use 65 hours per week).

For this I am rewarded under the new pay and grading with a drop in salary of £1,800 a year.

As for the three years pay protection a loss in 2011 is still a loss. Also I believe I am to lose one day a year out of my annual leave.

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Waste solution

MAY I suggest a simple solution to help reduce household waste – simply to offer anyone with a garden a free compost bin (or two).

This surely would reduce household waste. Also if people add compost to their soil it will help retain moisture, thus reducing the demand on water (to water the gardens).

Recently, we have been issued with brown weekly bins for garden waste. Many who have been given them do not even have gardens. These bins are expensive and means sending people round on a regular basis to collect the bins (thus an added cost).

Adam Hamilton Blake, Adel, Leeds

Ruined dreams

I hope that Leeds City councillors are proud of themselves. How they can sleep at night knowing they have ruined the dreams and aspirations of dozens of young girls for the small sum of £21,000 needs, especially as the Twilight Twirlers could eventually represented Yorkshire or even Britain in championships. What a disgusting shower in power.

J Shedlow, Leeds

Bins disgrace

RE David Marsh's article about bin strikes (YEP, May 7). We are a small community of sheltered housing. It's over three weeks since we've had our rubbish cleared and who'll carry the can if any of the elderly residents gets some of the nasty bacterial bugs that are going around?

If you can get it in a clean hospital you sure can get it from this lot, I understand. Many of them are quite poorly and they don't have cars to take the stuff to the tip or any family to take it for them. An absolute disgrace.

Janet Bennet, Billing View, Rawdon, Leeds