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Appleby Litter-Pick - Ermine Street North

The Thatched Cottage,9 Paul Lane,APPLEBY,DN15 0AR

12 Feb 2011

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Risby Road - DONE! Ermine Street - almost DONE! Where will we go next? The Litter-Pick on Saturday 12th February will be a bit different. We intend walking the 3 main roads we have cleared to pick up new litter and bits we missed first time. If you want to join us, please ring Anita for start time and roads being checked (735439). Thanks! Risby Road today and although we had already done this route, we managed to fill 32 sacks, unbelievable! Sunday morning saw us finishing the hedged part of Risby Road. Filling 8 sacks and finding treasures - a golf ball! A dog toy! A mini tyre! A dear dear - not so nice. We get so much pleasure when we drive down this lane now it is litter free. We estimate we have removed almost 2 tons of litter from this road alone, a mere 3.4 miles . . .

I wondered why my back was a bit sore!! Just a quick update! I have worked out that over the last 3 weeks we have spent around 90 man hours, filled about 300 big sacks of litter weighing in at almost 4 tons! Well done all of us! I have been out for a couple of hours most afternoons - every little bit helps! In 2 hours I can fill 6 sacks, covering about 120 metres of medium width, heavily littered verge. We are planning a Very Big Tidy Up - SOON! Watch this space!!.

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January Spruce Up!

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Spring Superclean!

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Winter Walk Ups!

Risby Road today! 8 sacks and counting! Another 15 sacks collected from Ermine Street north and south - Appleby and its surrounding area and litter free again! January 13 2013 - Today we tackled Ris...

Autumn Ambles!

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Summer Titivate!

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April Accumulator!

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Springtime Springcleans! 2012

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The Big Broughton Bag Up!

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Big Brigg Bag-Up - 2012!

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Big Brigg Bag-Up!

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