Angry residents today demanded publicans roll up their sleeves and clean up after drinkers flung hundreds of bottles down a Bradford street.

One resident counted 200 bottles - many of them broken - littering Wibsey High Street, which has five pubs within half a mile.

And others have even collected sets of drinking glasses to keep after they were left standing on walls and steps along the street.

But today former licensee Don Brasenell, who lives in Wibsey, said: "The pub landlords are making the profits and it's not too much to ask them to clear up afterwards."

Some of the glassware was left by New Year and Christmas revellers but families say much of it has been there for months.

Mr Brasenell spoke out after the Telegraph & Argus revealed Bradford Council was considering making a bye-law to ban drinking in the city centre.

But Mr Brasenell said: "The problems aren't just in Centenary Square, they're here in Wibsey.

"There are bottles, cans, vomit and discarded food. The broken glass is dangerous, particularly to pets and children.

''I'm not against people having a good time, but I think the pubs should clean up after themselves. This is all part of the new culture of drinking out of bottles."

A spokesman from the Windmill pub in the High Street said her staff constantly cleared up bottles and glasses.

"It has always been like this and people knew the pubs were here when they bought their houses."

But Labour ward Councillor Keith Thomson said he was very concerned about the effect of drinking on Wibsey.

"The High Street is very attractive and many people come from outside the village to the hostelries.

"People are fed up about the glass bottles and half drunk beer glasses which are left behind."

Bradford Council's executive committee member for the environment, Councillor Anne Hawkesworth, said: "It's absolutely atrocious. The licensees are the people who own the glasses and should know what is happening to them."