Green Party

Green Party election hopeful Ben Duncan took a few hours off the campaign trail this morning to pick up litter and plant wild flowers in Kemptown.

The Queen's Park councillor was taking part in a community ‘Clean Up and Green Up' event, alongside 30 volunteers in the Eastern Road and tarner areas of the city.

Four groups of local residents - numbers boosted by council staff, PCSOs and children from Queen's Park School - picked up persistent litter, collected bags of recyclable waste, and ended up planting wild flowers across the area.

Councillor Duncan said: "Events like this make a real difference to neighbourhoods - they really represent as bottom-up approach to improving people's immediate urban environment and quality of life.

"More 'Clean Up, Green Up' days than ever are needed since the Tory council withdrew funding from the neighbourhood management team serving the area last year, and the date for the spring event will be in my diary as soon as the dust settles from today's activities and someone works out when it will be!"

For more information please contact the Brighton and Hove Green party office on 01273 766 670.

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