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Beach clean-up volunteers turn the tide on waste BEACH clean volunteers hoping to turn the tide on litter collected a staggering 20 bin bags of rubbish in just one hour. A team of 15 Marine Conservation Society members braved the chilly January weather and held the event at Cabin Hill National Nature Reserve as part of the charity's Beachwatch project. In the 220kg of waste they collected and recorded along a 200-metre stretch of the beach, they found
more than 500 separate items of plastic litter. This included more than 100 packets, mostly crisps, sweets, lollies and sticks and sandwich cases. They also found 80 caps and lids and 36 pieces of plastic and polystyrene that were all smaller than 2.5cm. The information will help the society to identify the main sources of litter along the Formby stretch of the Sefton coastline and, they hope, will help keep the issue of the dangers of
INSIDE THIS WEEK... Marine Conservation Society volunteers braved the chilly January weather
marine litter high on the local agenda. In October, the Champion revealed that plastic waste that was more than 50 years old had been discovered on Formby and Freshfield beaches. Statistics released by the environ-
mental campaign charity Ocean Crusaders found that 100,000 marine creatures a year die from plastic entanglement – and approximately one million sea birds are also thought to die from discarded plastic waste. Continued inside
SEARCH FOR ADAM ENDS IN TRAGEDY AFTER BODY FOUND IN RIBBLE ESTUARY Report by Danielle Thompson
Adam Seaton
THE search for missing Adam Seaton came to a heartbreaking end following the discovery of a body in the Ribble Estuary - almost six months after he vanished. Edge Hill University student Adam disappeared from his home address in Marshside on Thursday, August 9 but a police statement issued last Friday - one week after the body of a man was found by a dog walker - confirmed everyone’s worst fears that, tragically, it was Adam. The search for Adam, who was 19 when he was reported missing, initially centred on the Sefton coastline after his family spotted his car, a red Ford Fiesta, parked at the RSPB Nature Reserve. It is thought Adam was at the site preparing to undertake some fieldwork for his geography course. But despite the efforts of teams of local volunteers,
police search units and the RNLI, extensive searches of the marshland failed to locate him. Adam’s body was discovered on Friday, January 18 and Merseyside Police confirmed it was him on Friday, January 25 saying there is nothing to suggest anything suspicious surrounding his death and the matter has now been referred to the coroner. Adam’s devastated family were informed following a post-mortem examination which took place on Friday and have asked for their privacy to be respected at this ‘very difficult time’. The family's Facebook page, ‘Adam Missing Marshside/Southport’ which was set up to keep the spotlight on the search posted on Friday: “As you know, the news has broken on social media that Adam has been found. Sadly, it is not the outcome that the family wanted. Thank you all for your support over the time Adam has been missing, I am sure you can respect the privacy of the family. Thank you.” Continued inside
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