RACHEL Maclean, MP for Redditch, is urging residents to organise a spring clean to help spruce up where they live.

Environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy’s annual Great British Spring Clean is back between March 2 and 4 in a bid to get people to tidy up litter blighting their community.

Last year the campaign saw 300,000 people collect 70,000 wheelie bins of rubbish over one weekend.

Church Hill residents are already getting involved by holding a spring clean on Sunday, March 4, between 1pm and 3pm, but Mrs Maclean is encouraging even more people to organise their own litter picks.

It comes following a report in this paper last week saying how the town is being let down by a couple of streets which, claimed one resident, have never ever been cleaned.

Cans, bottles, boxes and even a shopping trolley litter the pavement on Britten Street and Edward Street.

The resident, who wanted to remain anonymous, claimed the streets at one point were so clean you could eat your dinner off the floor, but not anymore.

Mrs Maclean said: “We all live in such a beautiful area, but unfortunately a minority of people are blighting our streets and countrywide by dropping litter.

“I hope residents will join me in tackling this increasing problem and help rid our streets of unwanted rubbish.”

For more information on the Great British Spring Clean, go to keepbritaintidy.org/gbspringclean.