A Ramsey woman is ’fed up’ of opening her door to find a large amount of rubbish that’s been blown into her yard time and time again.

Masses of cardboard and paper receipts have greeted 70-year-old Irene Brew ’for months’ despite her cleaning it away and speaking to the manager of the Ramsey Spar shop, which she said is responsible for the mess.

The store has its wheelie bins directly opposite her home’s back door on Water Street.

’There are cardboard boxes all over the place. It’s the wind and they [the Spar store] have got a cage over there with no cover and they don’t squish the boxes down.

’Their big blue rubbish bins are going all over the place in the wind and when they fall over the rubbish blows across the car park and down into my yard.

’I’m fed up of it. They need to strap the big bins to the wall.’

Mrs Brew told the Examiner that she has breathing problems and that cleaning up the rubbish takes her roughly an hour.

Getting a big, black rubbish bag, she picks it up and returns it to the Spar shop.

Mrs Brew said: ’It’s just a pain. The manager did come over and clean it up once.

’I have left a notice on my door telling people not to go out to the back yard because of the rubbish, otherwise it will come in the house. There are also papers up on the roof.’

Her daughter, Joanne Wilson, said: ’The shop staff and management have been told time and time again about the mess their inconsiderate disposal of rubbish causing problems.

’They have also been shown photos and have come out on occasion to clean up their rubbish - that’s only masking the problem. I have explained to the manager he needs bins with brakes and locks and he needs cardboard cages that have tops.

’It’s my parents’ house. It’s only a matter of time before one of them falls over on the piles of cardboard and rubbish that blows into their property from Spar.’

She added that the cleaning is something her mother shouldn’t have to be doing.

We contacted Heron and Brearley, the company that owns Spar shops in the island through its Mannin Retail arm, for a comment .

But it gave a ’no comment’ response.