60 bags of rubbish collected from lake

3:39pm Friday 25th April 2008

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DOZENS of bags of rancid rubbish were plucked from the banks of Windermere, prompting calls for visitors and locals to respect the Lakeland landscape.

Fifty volunteers, including canoeists, divers and schoolchildren, took part in the annual lake clean-up campaign - Winderclean - which saw more than 60 bags of rubbish collected from the shoreline.

Among the debris which was discovered were broken bottles and jagged cans which were found at depths of between two and three metres where they "posed serious risks to lake users and wildlife."

For full story see this week's Westmorland Gazette.