Brampton is a tidier place after this morning’s Big Tidy Up. Ten village litter pickers set out in all directions from the Village Hall art eleven o’clock. An hour’s solid picking yielded several sacks full of rubbish from the hedges, lanes and wider country.

Litter picking is a bit like the evil twin of fruit picking – once you get your eye in you see so much more. You find more if you walk in each direction up a hedge line, seemingly stumbling up more that was missed on your first pass.

Most of the litter came from the usual food wrappings – we must be a “cheese-burger’s” distance from the nearest fast food joint.  Grateful thanks to all of this morning’s litter pickers and to the many more who carry out their own personal campaigns around the village all year round.