A JOINT effort by Lindford’s Spar shop, a team of volunteers from confectionery firm Wrigley, Convenience Store magazine, Keep Britain Tidy and Headteacher Ruth Worswick from The Holme School, with some of her pupils, resulted in a grand community tidy-up.

After a couple of hours tidying the play park and play area the enthusiastic group had filled several bags with litter, picking up further pieces on the way back to the shop run by Julian Taylor-Green.

He said: “It was fantastic that so many people were involved in picking litter from the streets, it’s something as a retailer I feel very passionate about.”

Mrs Worswick added: “It was great to have my pupils involved.”