I often have people contacting me about a number of local issues, such as litter, graffiti, fly tipping, problem pavements or dodgy street-lighting. I'm always happy to try and help when I can but I don't always get the fastest response from the Council.

Now, there's a new way of reporting any problems you have that the Council need to fix at a brilliant website which will report the matter to the right people at the Council straight away.

www.fixmystreet.com is a free service which is really simple to use. Simply enter the postcode, street name or general location of the problem, and then you can pinpoint it more acurately using a map.

You can also see if a problem has already been reported, and what, if anything, has been done about it.

I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts and comments about this site and whether you've had any experience with it so feel free to leave a comment below.