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Vol 25 ● Issue 19
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• BIANCA • L E B E K
9 May 2018
• E U G E N K L E I N • P E R U Z Z I • G O L L E H AU G
5 WELD PARADE, BIRKDALE VILLAGE, PR8 2DT
Full round-up of the local election results
Watson returns as Port boss
Ainsdale Beach was left ‘looking like a landfill site’ after Bank Holiday heatwave, say furious Champion readers
DROWNING IN LITTER!
Some of the rubbish left on Ainsdale Beach
SHOCKED Champion readers have blasted day-trippers who left Ainsdale beach ‘drowning in litter’ during the sizzling Bank Holiday weekend. Enraged visitors to the sun-drenched coastal spot sent in photographs of hundreds of items which were left strewn all over the beach, including glass beer bottles, plastic bags, pop bottles, fast-food containers, plastic buckets and spades, tissues, paper plates, used disposable barbecues, soiled nappies and even broken deckchairs! At least eight million tons of plastic end up in the oceans every year, with plastic debris causing some of the worst problems as it does not biodegrade but fragments into small particles, which are eaten by, suffocate and entangle and kill marine life. But that doesn’t seem to bother some of the
Report by Danielle Thompson
people who left their mark on Ainsdale beach as temperatures soared. Kathleen Prescott was one visitor to Ainsdale beach who was left dismayed by what she saw. She said: “It's absolutely disgusting that vile visitors with no decency at all could leave their rubbish all over Ainsdale Beach like this - especially their plastic waste in light of all the publicity that’s been given to the issue. “I would be ashamed to leave even one item at the beach - it was left drowning in litter. If you can carry it down there, you can carry it home! Continued inside
More of the litter left on Ainsdale Beach
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