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Tidy start for drive to spruce up Craven
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| The Embsay litter pic |
The Herald's Clean-up Craven Campaign has got off to a flying start with two areas of the district tidied up at the weekend.
Teams from Stainforth and Embsay-with-Eastby went out armed with litter-gathering equipment and shifted piles of rubbish from the hedgerows and woodland.
Twenty-five Embsay residents met at the Cavendish car park and easily managed to fill a skip in two hours with litter collected from Rockwood wood.
The event was such a success that more litter-picking days are being planned.
Residents in Stainforth also went on a spring-clean and unearthed a mountain of rubbish, some of which had been fly-tipped.
Nine members of the village environment group cleared debris from the verges. Included in the haul was the best part of a kitchen in a lay-by, general rubbish thrown from cars along the roadside and a bag containing plastic store cards in various people's names which has been handed to the police.
Herald correspondent Angie Pedley said the group also found two carrier bags of rubbish which had been tied ready to be binned but instead were dumped on the verge.
"The plan is to do another pick on the main road in the autumn and perhaps another within the village," she said.
While many areas of Craven are reasonably litter-free, it is small pockets of roadside litter which people are targeting. A lot comes from passing traffic.
Ian Fulton, a South Craven parish councillor and member of the Craven Area Committee, is raising the subject at the committee's next meeting on May 29 at Herriot's Hotel.
9:12am Friday 16th May 2008
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