Rubbish collections will be late due to the Easter holidays.

Collections normally made on Friday will be on Saturday this week. Next week, all collections will be a day late with the service returning to normal on Monday, April 20.

Medway’s three household waste and recycling centres at Gillingham, Chatham and Cuxton, will be open from 9am to 4pm on Good Friday and Easter Monday.

Medway Libraries and Archives and Studies Centre will be closed on Good Friday and Easter Monday. Normal opening hours apply on Saturday, April 11.

The council’s Customer First contact centre will be closed from Good Friday until Easter Monday. The call centre will reopen with its regular hours of 8am to 8pm on April 14.

Contact Points in Chatham, Gillingham, Rochester, Strood and Rainham will all be closed on Good Friday and Easter Monday.

Rochester Contact Point is open from 10am to 1pm on Saturday while Gillingham is open from 9am to 1pm.

Contact Points in Rainham, Chatham and Strood are closed on Saturday.

Bus timetables are also subject to change.

Arriva’s buses in Medway will run mainly to Sunday times on Good Friday but special timetables will apply to 132, 140/141, 145, 166/167, 176, 181 and 182.

On Saturday and Sunday, buses will run to their usual weekend times apart from 700/701 between Medway Towns and Bluewater, which is not running as a result of Bluewater being closed that day.

Sunday times will also apply on Easter Monday on most routes.

Full details of these arrangements are in a leaflet available from Arriva’s Travel Shops, by calling 0844 800 4411 or by visiting www.arrivabus.co.uk.

On Good Friday, Nu-Venture will only operate Bus 151 (Medway/W Malling via Snodland)- no other Nu-Venture services will operate.

Normal Saturday and Sunday services apply on those days with a Sunday service running on Easter Monday.

Normal service resumes on Tuesday. Full details of Nu-Venture bus timetables at www.nu-venture.co.uk