A family claim they have waited five months for a replacement after their wheelie bin was run over and broken by a refuse wagon.

Now company director Naasser Amini, who says he has made call after call to the council since then, has gone to the top in a bid to get action.

He has written to Lord Mayor Councillor Stanley King that the needs of his family are being ignored, although he pays Council Tax for the service.

Mr Amini said they had to keep rubbish in their house in black plastic bags as they are struggling to cope with one wheelie bin - although they had previously been allocated two because of their large family .

He said the bin had been taken away by the cleansing staff after it was struck in December last year outside his home in Sycamore Close, Bradford.

Mr Amini, a director of Amini Textiles International, said he went to the Harris Street cleansing depot in January and was told his new bin would be delivered in two weeks.

He said the family now had a constant backlog of rubbish but the Council did not collect the black sacks - even though it was responsible for breaking the bin.

Mr Amini said he rang twice in January after his visit to Harris Street and was told it would be delivered soon.

"I rang on February 21 and they said they would deliver it on Monday.

"I rang on March 6, 12 and 19 and they kept saying it would be delivered on Monday. They were not pleasant about it."

"I still haven't got it and there are six people living in this house, including a baby, so it is very difficult."

He said if he did not pay his Council Tax on time, he would get a court order, but the council was not prepared to keep its share of the bargain.

Today Councillor Anne Hawkesworth, executive member for the environment, including cleansing said: "If this is correct, it is absolutely diabolical and he should get a new bin immediately. There is no way that this should happen. I am very concerned and will look into this."