Anoushka Jethwa and Jim Matthews using his litter-picker device to give Anoushka ‘bunny ears’<\/p><\/div>\n
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The nationwide Great British Spring Clean was held over the weekend of March 3-5 2017. In Leicester the effort was co-ordinated by the city council’s parks staff.<\/p>\n
The department’s Penny Brown, with whom Leicester Novus had worked on the Walnut Street ‘pocket park’ clean-up and on the planting of End Polio Now crocus bulbs in Abbey Park, invited Leicester Novus to join in.<\/p>\n
Accompanied by Anoushka Jethwa MSc, member Jim Matthews joined about 20 other volunteers, including some students from De Montfort Univeristy’s Square Mile project, which provided help to Novuis previously.<\/p>\n
Using ‘branded’ plastic bags and litter-pick\u00a0devices, Anoushka and Jim walked about one and a half miles from the Pavilion in Victoria Park, down New Walk and back via Regent Road and the war memorial collecting rubbish as they went.<\/p>\n
More than 20 bags of rubbish were collected. In among the cigarette ends, bottles and food wrappers, Jim found a driving licence which was later handed to police.<\/p>\n
Penny Brown thanked Novus\u00a0for their support.<\/p>\n
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The nationwide Great British Spring Clean was held over the weekend of March 3-5 2017. In Leicester the effort was co-ordinated by the city council’s parks staff. The department’s Penny Brown, with whom Leicester Novus had worked on the Walnut Street ‘pocket park’ clean-up and on the planting of End Polio Now crocus bulbs … <\/p>\n
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