Clarebrand mum's can-do attitude to tackling issue in the local community

A Clarebrand mother has taken a can-do attitude to tackling the issue of littering in the local community.

Kathryn Roxburgh was shocked at the amount of empty drinks cans motorists had thrown out of their car windows while using quiet country lanes.

So she used the cans to make special signs urging people to take their litter home instead.

Kathryn, who lives just outside Clarebrand, said: “It took me no time at all to collect them and that was all within half a mile.

“The lanes around here are lovely and it’s terrible that this is happening. I know the local farmer was quite pleased when the signs went up because he moves his cattle along the lane and the cans are so flimsy they cut.”

The signs haven’t been up for long but seem to have proven controversial. On Friday, one of them was pushed over, although a farmer put it back up.

And Kathryn added: “Someone is stopping and putting their cans under the sign. We don’t know who is doing it, everyone who lives along there is keeping an eye out.

“I don’t know why people do it because I don’t know what they think is going to happen to the cans. My daughter even found a Fanta can that was dated 1970!”