Christmas is well and truly over for another year, and along with wrapping paper, decorations and food waste that may need disposing of, there's also the question of what to do with real Christmas trees.

Some may choose to plant them in the garden, but for those who don't have the space, a number of councils in East Lancs are offering collection services.

Residents who are signed up to Blackburn with Darwen Council's garden waste collection can cut their Christmas trees up and place them in their brown bins to be collected (although first collections of brown bins aren't until March).

Alternatively, council bosses are advising people to take their trees to the tip and place them in the garden waste skips, or pay to have them collected via a paid for bulky collection.

Those living in the Ribble Valley can place their chopped up Christmas trees inside their green bins, or can leave them tied up and left with burgundy bins or lilac sacks on green waste collection week.

They can also be taken to the household waste recycling centres at Henthorn, Clitheroe, or Chapel Hill, Longridge, or donated to environmental charity Ribble Rivers Trust by calling 01200 444409 to arrange for collection.

And in Hyndburn, the council will recycle real Christmas trees by turning them into compost or wood chippings.

Residents are asked to place their trees with their recycling bin ready for the first recycling collection of 2019, on Monday January 7.

For further details on how to dispose of your Christmas tree, visit your council's website or Facebook page.