Overgrown grass verges are posing a safety hazard to road users, according to local community councillors.

Now Aberporth Community Council are to tell Ceredigion that cost-cutting measures which have resulted in one cut a year are "unacceptable".

"We are in difficult times financially," said Cllr Gethin James at this week's community council meeting.

"But one cut a year is unacceptable, the verges look scruffy and overgrown and you can't see road signs. It is a road safety hazard."

And he added: "Two cuts a year is the minimum and we should tell the county council that the current provision is unacceptable."

Chairman Cllr Arthur Richards said he had been appalled to see the state of the county's roads when he returned to Ceredigion after a holiday in Powys.

"The roadsides looked terrible. It's not helping the county at all," he said.

He added that rural villages suffered especially because they relied on 'B' roads.

"The trunk roads are cut by the Welsh Assembly so people living in towns wouldn't even notice."

And Cllr James said: "I think we would have the support of all rural communities."