HEREFORDSHIRE’S bin collections will go ahead on Monday with slight changes, despite there being a bank holiday for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.

With her coffin now back in London before lying in state at Westminster Hall, some councils, including Powys County Council, have changed bin collections due to Monday's state funeral – with bins across the border being emptied a day later than normal.

But Herefordshire Council said collections will still be carried out on the normal day.

But it said workers will start an hour earlier so they can stop between 11am and midday to pay their respects.

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Tips will also be open as usual, but customer services, libraries, museums, leisure centres and the archive and records centre in Rotherwas will be shut.

Planned cremation services will go ahead, but offices and the register office will be shut.

Halo will reopen its centres as usual on Tuesday morning after keeping the doors locked all day on Monday. All planned sports and leisure events will be cancelled or postponed to a later date.

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The Lord-Lieutenant of Herefordshire Edward Harley says a service of commemoration will take place on Sunday (September 18) at 3.30pm in Hereford Cathedral. It will be open to the public and streamed online via the cathedral’s website.

As a moment of reflection, a national one-minute silence will take place on Sunday at 8pm.

Books of Condolence are available for signing at locations throughout Herefordshire until the day after the funeral, to commemorate and celebrate fond memories of Queen Elizabeth II throughout her life.