Disgust at rubbish 'slums' near Pleasington graves (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Disgust at rubbish 'slums' near Pleasington graves
10:00pm Friday 13th April 2012 in News
Peter Holden surveys the rubbish dumped near Pleasington cemetery.
A PENSIONER is calling for action after comparing the football pitches near Pleasington Cemetery to ‘slums’ following weekend football matches.
And now council bosses are planning to contact local sports teams to ask them to be more responsible with their rubbish.
Peter Holden, 70, of Commonside, Whalley, often walks over the litter-strewn pitches after visiting his parents’ headstones at the cemetery, with his dog Alfie.
On Saturday, which would have been his father’s birthday, he visited the grounds and said he was compelled to contact the Lancashire Telegraph.
He said: “People have no respect for anything. They have no civic pride.
“Just after the game was finished, the touchline was full of drinks cans, coffee cups, waste paper, and all sorts of rubbish.
“Bins are provided just five yards away, but every touchline is littered with rubbish that the spectators and players disregard. After 90 minutes it looks like Whinney Hill tip.”
Peter said he often picked up the rubbish himself. He said: “I’m disgusted that the town I was born and bred in resembles a slum. It’s a disgrace. There are ample bins around Pleasington, but people are too lazy to use them.”
Tony Watson, head of environmental services at Blackburn with Darwen Council, said: “To just throw your litter on the ground is lazy, irresponsible, and could be dangerous. We have ground staff who undertake regular litter picks at the site and plenty of people have responded to the coun-cil’s Your Call campaign and volunteered in litter picks to show they are proud of their communities, but people shoul- dn’t create this mess in the first place.
“We are planning to make further representations to the football and also cricket leagues to ask their memb-ers and supporters to be more responsible with their rubbish and to have a bit more respect for the area and other park users.”
Billy Markham, secretary of Blackburn Football Comb- ination, whose teams play at the site on a Saturday, said players and spectators were encouraged to use the bins for litter.
“We do make a positive effort to make sure the clubs clean up after themselves.
“Now the issue has been brought to my attention we will highlight it for the last couple of games before the end of the season.”
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Comments (34)
10:20pm Fri 13 Apr 12
Cha'mone MF says...
10:27pm Fri 13 Apr 12
Michael@ClitheroeSince58 says...
11:28pm Fri 13 Apr 12
Mill62 says...
11:45pm Fri 13 Apr 12
New World Order. says...
I think more o.a.p's like
Mr Holden should get out of their wee armchair's and do a bit of litter picking in the park. Peter must have loads of spare time on his hand's posing for picture's in the local paper and chatting to reporters all day about the local amateur football team's. Bet there is load's of o.a.p's who could litter pick instead of moaning about it. I have been told it is very therapeutic to pick other people's cr4p up. Which leave's me with the good fortune of not feeling paranoid about throwing the odd bin bag of rubbish out the back of the van and sometime's i don't even have to stop the van.beepbeep.
A quick tip for free..if you grab a red bin bag and throw your cr4p in it the council collect it from the side of the road where ever you dump it,"how cool is that"?..Remember only red bag's work.
12:26am Sat 14 Apr 12
district01 says...
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12:34am Sat 14 Apr 12
district01 says...
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2:08am Sat 14 Apr 12
riversidefan says...
2:13am Sat 14 Apr 12
riversidefan says...
9:07am Sat 14 Apr 12
tenerc says...
well it`s not working then is it, why not try fining the teams.
before every match, the managers walk round the pitch, with players & supporters, pick up any rubbish, start with a clean area, then after the game any rubbish on the ground BOTH teams are fined £1 per item, when money is involved you`ll soon see a difference.
9:43am Sat 14 Apr 12
New World Order. says...
9:54am Sat 14 Apr 12
labradoodlewalker says...
11:55am Sat 14 Apr 12
New World Order. says...
cha'mone MF.What a thick tw4t you are.
1:15pm Sat 14 Apr 12
Cha'mone MF says...
I can detect from your venom
that you are more than LIKELY one of the smelly, unwashed, unemployed tramps that wander shoeless down to pikeywood park to watch the comedy show every other weekend.
Why not save your hard earned giro and sit at home instead with your big crayons correcting people's grammar and punctuation while necking gallons
of frosty jack and fighting those inappropriate urges you have for close female family members?
......just an idea.
1:38pm Sat 14 Apr 12
Ted Maul says...
Don't be so over sensitive.
Just an idea.
Silly little dingle.
3:07pm Sat 14 Apr 12
Cha'mone MF says...
You and New w@nk order should save your giros up and buy that shed for ten grand.
....you could invite all the other
Pikeywood tramps round and play pass the frosty jack while regaling one another with stories of how you used to watch premiership football.
3:43pm Sat 14 Apr 12
Ted Maul says...
Is that the best you can come up with?
The standard of dingle on these pages really isn't what it used to be.
Bless.
6:12pm Sat 14 Apr 12
Cha'mone MF says...
7:23pm Sat 14 Apr 12
New World Order. says...
On December 14, 2008, the First Trumpet of the Seventh Seal of the Book of Revelation sounded, which announced the beginning collapse of the economy of the United States and great destruction that will follow. The next three trumpets will result in the total collapse of the United States, and once the Fifth Trumpet sounds the world will be thrust into WW III.
Now then Miss cha'mone MF is this LIKELY or LIGHTLY..?
8:56pm Sat 14 Apr 12
sparrowlegs78 says...
9:20pm Sat 14 Apr 12
DoyouknowhoIam? says...
As for fining the teams and who's going to Police the idea, well would it be too difficult for the match officials and/or the team Managers to implement?
10:45pm Sat 14 Apr 12
New World Order. says...
Best eating breakfast before they set off then they might get somewhere other than the eyesore of a park that the council can't keep clean regardless of how much in taxes they rob from us each year.
Yes people shouldn't litter where bin's are provided but we pay the council to keep the public area's clean and if Holdy pop's isn't happy with the council's service he should take it up with the litter picking police BwD or at least report it to them before talking to newspaper's and posing for picture's saying sweeping statement's like "it's all bin the fault of Blackburn combination players and supporters". I would had that if Holdy pops make's a complaint over litter to keep a record of it because the last time i complained about little to the council it was forgotten and eventually swept under the carpet.
11:46pm Sat 14 Apr 12
Cha'mone MF says...
9:18am Sun 15 Apr 12
New World Order. says...
I only hope that Mr labradoodlewalker and his hungry friend's can do the same rather than picking it themselves.And if Mr Holden can drag himself away from the camera lens for five minutes and find time to do the same the council will be left with no other choice than to earn their wages and clean the park that they charge us so much to use.
11:00am Sun 15 Apr 12
Chris P Bacon says...
Like most sane and rational people, I just go one stage further than you in my atheism. You, for instance, are an atheist where Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, Shintoism, Zoroastrianism, Baalism and all the other monotheist and polytheist religions of the world are concerned.
Q. What makes YOURS right and THEIRS wrong?
A. Indoctrination.
11:01am Sun 15 Apr 12
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