Bishop's Castle is the first town to benefit from a charity's initiative to install sanitary bins in male toilets.

The Bins for Boys initiative, spearheaded by the Lingen Davies Cancer Fund charity, seeks to add the bins to men's public toilets to benefit men who need to dispose of pads, pouches, stomas, catheters, and colostomy and ileostomy bags.

Such equipment may be in use by men who have undergone cancer treatment, or treatment for other illnesses.

At least eleven public venues in Bishop's Castle have signed up to the initiative so far, including Enterprise House, Castle Hotel, Herbie's, The Happy Bap, SpArC Leisure Centre, and the Town Hall.

One of the people involved in promoting the project is Danny Lloyd-Jones, 36, of Oswestry, who was diagnosed with bowel cancer just before his 32nd birthday.

On the same day that he received his diagnosis, Mr Lloyd-Jones was told that he would need to have major surgery and a stoma.

He has since had 86 treatments, one major surgery, and two rounds of ablation - a treatment which uses heat, made by radio waves, to kill cancer cells.

His latest scan was clear for the first time in four years.

Mr Lloyd-Jones said: "I had no idea what a stoma was until I was told I needed to have one, which was obviously life changing.

"I have been in well-known shops before with no sanitary bins in the toilet and I had to change my stoma and carry the bag around, which obviously I didn’t want to have to do.

"I think Bins for Boys is a brilliant project and I hope many more public venues get behind and help make this much-needed change.

"I’ve had people who have their own stomas come up to me on holiday congratulating me on walking around with my stoma confidently.

"They said it helped them not to feel so embarrassed.

"I don’t think you see many young people with one and the more people that can find out about these issues the better.

"I have found in life that most things are bigger than you and if I can do anything to raise awareness of issues like this I will gladly do so."

Tim Cooper, chair of trustees for Lingen Davies, explained: "Lingen Davies is signing up venues and supplying them with Bins for Boys stickers for them to display at venue entrances, toilet doors, cubicles, and on the bins themselves, giving venue name checks on social media channels and adding them to our specially developed Bins for Boys webpage and live interactive Google Map so that people can see venues taking part and plan their outings accordingly.

"Any venue which signs up and gets a bin will be added."

Venues wishing to participate in Bins for Boys can find out more at www.lingendavies.co.uk/binsforboys