Covid: Nottingham litter pickers tidy city after gatherings

An army of volunteer litter pickers has been helping to keep a city's green spaces tidy after they were left strewn with litter following parties in breach of Covid rules last month.

The Nottingham helpers - known as Clean Champions - helped to tidy the city's Forest Recreation Ground, which was left covered with rubbish after the illegal gatherings.

Volunteer Vicky Martin said: "You drive around, you walk to school, you just see litter and I felt myself getting quite cross about it.

"It's great to have something we can do to make the place better."

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