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Judging imminent

July 30, 2011

We have been notified that the Britain in Bloom judge will be visiting the village on the afternoon of Tuesday, 2nd August, to see what improvements have been made since the Trust entered the RHS “It’s Your Neighbourhood” award scheme last year.

The Trust has raised funds for the planting of 50 tubs and local businesses and residents have made a fine effort to make the village bloom.  As well as gardening achievement, though, the assessment will include community participation and environmental responsibility.

Judging will also be undertaken for the Trust’s own Front Garden Awards.

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Tidy Up half complete

July 16, 2011

This morning, 6 volunteers braved the rain to help tidy up the village centre, in readiness for judging.  Weeds were removed, tarmac swept clean and litter picked up.

The Britain in Bloom Neighbourhood Awards judging is expected during the next 3 weeks.

Another 2 hour session will be held at 10.00 am on Sunday, tomorrow morning, to finish the work.

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Litter collected

April 4, 2011

Last Saturday morning 8 members of the Trust gave up a couple of hours of their time and took to the streets and open spaces to pick up litter.

The event was organised as part of the County Durham ‘Big Spring Clean’ and Britain in Bloom initiative.  24 bags of litter were collected.

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Big Spring Clean

March 3, 2011

In support of Litterfree Durham’s “Big Spring Clean”, the Trust is holding a litter pick on the morning of Saturday 2nd April this year.

If you can spare an hour or two, meet at 10am in the bottle bank car park [next to the Golden Flower] and bring gloves and a litter picker [if you have one]. The trust has a small supply of litter pickers and will provide refuse sacks and bibs.

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Litter on the B6278

April 17, 2010

A dozen volunteers turned up this morning to collect litter and rubbish from the country lanes in Northumberland. During the 2 hour operation a van and trailer load of litter, tyres, car crash parts, building materials, a dvd player, radio, computer disk drive and two plastic doll arms were collected.

Between Shotley Bridge and The Snods on the B6278, known locally as Burnmill Bank, we filled 12 bags with litter. Most of this being food and drink containers that had been discarded from vehicles over the last 12 months. That’s a bag of litter per month, on average, thrown away by people who just want to keep their vehicles clean but have no respect for the countryside.

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