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Cronton Spring Clean

38 Wheatfield Road,,Cronton,Widnes,WA8 5BU

23 Mar 2012

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Cronton Pathways will be continuing the clean-up of Cronton Road on Friday 23rd March 2012. Meet at the Unicorn Inn car park at 10a.m. where gloves, bags and litter-pickers will all be available for volunteers to use in this venture. The Autumn Clean-Up was incredibly successful with 70 bags of litter collected by the group of volunteers. We hope to clear the hedgerows of litter on Cronton Road from Lodge Lane to Tue Lane and continue along Penny Lane. All help will be appreciated. In addition to this Y6 children from Holy Family R C School will be joining us to litter-pick Sandy Lane, as they did last year, on Thursday 22nd March from 10.a.m. BTCV will also be organising two of their groups to litter-pick Pex Hill on Tuesday 20th March and the Quarry on Friday 23rd March. There will also be a group of Knowsley Pay-Back team clearing litter along the Knowsley section of Norlands Lane on Wednesday 21st March too.

We are also contacting Highways Agency in the hope that they will clear the litter that is blighting the two M62 roundabouts at Rainhill Stoops and Tarbock Island and the verges which border Cronton. Fingers crossed. .

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