Our roadsides are the filthiest I have seen in the last few years; Corsica, Northern Italy, New York City and even Glasgow do a lot better.

Who drops this stuff? Has anyone ever been fined? Is Ruth Kelly as Communities Secretary' responsible?

In the meantime, I will get my grabber' (available from Houghtons, Milnthorpe) and tidy my section' of the A65, it is becoming my life's work.

Iain Robertson, Cow Brow