Disgust at rubbish 'slums' near Pleasington graves

Peter Holden surveys the rubbish dumped near Pleasington cemetery. 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.”

Comments(34)

Cha'mone MF says...
10:20pm Fri 13 Apr 12

Ewood Park is nowhere near Pleasington.

Michael@ClitheroeSince58 says...
10:27pm Fri 13 Apr 12

Cha'mone MF wrote:
Ewood Park is nowhere near Pleasington.
haha:)

Mill62 says...
11:28pm Fri 13 Apr 12

I used to run football teams and most players I saw were lazy, untidy,ill mannered louts.

New World Order. says...
11:45pm Fri 13 Apr 12

Mr Peter Holden want's to try living round our end. They stuff litter through your letter box it's known as a council tax bill.

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.

district01 says...
12:26am Sat 14 Apr 12

It's all a load of: http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=JLXyZ-vWF
FI

district01 says...
12:34am Sat 14 Apr 12

Best to take the spaces out after each line:
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=JLXyZ-vWF
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riversidefan says...
2:08am Sat 14 Apr 12

Even with litter it's still 100% better maintained than Blackburn Cemetery which is an utter disgrace.

riversidefan says...
2:13am Sat 14 Apr 12

Cha'mone MF wrote:
Ewood Park is nowhere near Pleasington.
You really are obsessed with Blackburn, now even trying to make jokes about a serious issue. Sick!

tenerc says...
9:07am Sat 14 Apr 12

"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."

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.

New World Order. says...
9:43am Sat 14 Apr 12

tenerc wrote:
"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."

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.
And who is going to police this brilliant idea of your's..?

labradoodlewalker says...
9:54am Sat 14 Apr 12

New world order, why should the oaps of the neighbourhood pick up other , much young and fitter mens (i say that loosely) rubbish.I walk regulary in this park and sunday and monday mornings are a nightmare. The group i walk with spend the walk picking up bottles, burgers, chips and other food waste left by the football teams and their supporters. It is said dog onwers will be named and shamed for not picking up dog waste, well people that litter our beautiful park are the ones that spoil it.

New World Order. says...
11:55am Sat 14 Apr 12

Cha'mone MF wrote:
riversidefan wrote:
Cha'mone MF wrote:
Ewood Park is nowhere near Pleasington.
You really are obsessed with Blackburn, now even trying to make jokes about a serious issue. Sick!
The crisis at Pikeywood Park and the thousands of unwashed tramps that go to protest is a very serious issue indeed and shouldn't be taken likely.
shouldn't be taken likely..LIKELY.??

cha'mone MF.What a thick tw4t you are.

Cha'mone MF says...
1:15pm Sat 14 Apr 12

New World Order. wrote:
Cha'mone MF wrote:
riversidefan wrote:
Cha'mone MF wrote:
Ewood Park is nowhere near Pleasington.
You really are obsessed with Blackburn, now even trying to make jokes about a serious issue. Sick!
The crisis at Pikeywood Park and the thousands of unwashed tramps that go to protest is a very serious issue indeed and shouldn't be taken likely.
shouldn't be taken likely..LIKELY.??

cha'mone MF.What a thick tw4t you are.
Ha ha, Thank you for correcting my mistake there New W@nk Order. Maybe I could come live in Blackburn with all the other thick tw@ts.

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.

Ted Maul says...
1:38pm Sat 14 Apr 12

Cha'mone MF wrote:
New World Order. wrote:
Cha'mone MF wrote:
riversidefan wrote:
Cha'mone MF wrote:
Ewood Park is nowhere near Pleasington.
You really are obsessed with Blackburn, now even trying to make jokes about a serious issue. Sick!
The crisis at Pikeywood Park and the thousands of unwashed tramps that go to protest is a very serious issue indeed and shouldn't be taken likely.
shouldn't be taken likely..LIKELY.??

cha'mone MF.What a thick tw4t you are.
Ha ha, Thank you for correcting my mistake there New W@nk Order. Maybe I could come live in Blackburn with all the other thick tw@ts.

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.
Calm down princess.

Don't be so over sensitive.

Just an idea.

Silly little dingle.

Cha'mone MF says...
3:07pm Sat 14 Apr 12

Ted Maul wrote:
Cha'mone MF wrote:
New World Order. wrote:
Cha'mone MF wrote:
riversidefan wrote:
Cha'mone MF wrote:
Ewood Park is nowhere near Pleasington.
You really are obsessed with Blackburn, now even trying to make jokes about a serious issue. Sick!
The crisis at Pikeywood Park and the thousands of unwashed tramps that go to protest is a very serious issue indeed and shouldn't be taken likely.
shouldn't be taken likely..LIKELY.??

cha'mone MF.What a thick tw4t you are.
Ha ha, Thank you for correcting my mistake there New W@nk Order. Maybe I could come live in Blackburn with all the other thick tw@ts.

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.
Calm down princess.

Don't be so over sensitive.

Just an idea.

Silly little dingle.
Another sweaty unwashed tramp, you stick together you lot don't you?

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.

Ted Maul says...
3:43pm Sat 14 Apr 12

Oh dear.

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.

Cha'mone MF says...
6:12pm Sat 14 Apr 12

Ted Maul wrote:
Oh dear.

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.
Oooo Edward, you are a card !

New World Order. says...
7:23pm Sat 14 Apr 12

Cha'mone MF wrote:
New World Order. wrote:
Cha'mone MF wrote:
riversidefan wrote:
Cha'mone MF wrote:
Ewood Park is nowhere near Pleasington.
You really are obsessed with Blackburn, now even trying to make jokes about a serious issue. Sick!
The crisis at Pikeywood Park and the thousands of unwashed tramps that go to protest is a very serious issue indeed and shouldn't be taken likely.
shouldn't be taken likely..LIKELY.??

cha'mone MF.What a thick tw4t you are.
Ha ha, Thank you for correcting my mistake there New W@nk Order. Maybe I could come live in Blackburn with all the other thick tw@ts.

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.
The year 2008 marked the last of God’s warnings to mankind and the beginning in a countdown of the final three and one-half years of man’s self-rule that will end by May 27, 2012.

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..?

sparrowlegs78 says...
8:56pm Sat 14 Apr 12

I thought to myself "oh look another footballing story, no wonder the football fans can't put litter in the bins with their knuckles dragging on the ground" and lo and behold, I see nothing on here that isn't written by a knuckle dragging idiot! How jolly you all are!

DoyouknowhoIam? says...
9:20pm Sat 14 Apr 12

I agree 100% with Mr Holden, it really is a disgrace after the matches have been played.

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?

New World Order. says...
10:45pm Sat 14 Apr 12

labradoodlewalker wrote:
New world order, why should the oaps of the neighbourhood pick up other , much young and fitter mens (i say that loosely) rubbish.I walk regulary in this park and sunday and monday mornings are a nightmare. The group i walk with spend the walk picking up bottles, burgers, chips and other food waste left by the football teams and their supporters. It is said dog onwers will be named and shamed for not picking up dog waste, well people that litter our beautiful park are the ones that spoil it.
labradoodlewalker said:The group i walk with spend the walk picking up bottles, burgers, chips and other food waste.
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.

Cha'mone MF says...
11:46pm Sat 14 Apr 12

New World Order. wrote:
Cha'mone MF wrote:
New World Order. wrote:
Cha'mone MF wrote:
riversidefan wrote:
Cha'mone MF wrote:
Ewood Park is nowhere near Pleasington.
You really are obsessed with Blackburn, now even trying to make jokes about a serious issue. Sick!
The crisis at Pikeywood Park and the thousands of unwashed tramps that go to protest is a very serious issue indeed and shouldn't be taken likely.
shouldn't be taken likely..LIKELY.??

cha'mone MF.What a thick tw4t you are.
Ha ha, Thank you for correcting my mistake there New W@nk Order. Maybe I could come live in Blackburn with all the other thick tw@ts.

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.
The year 2008 marked the last of God’s warnings to mankind and the beginning in a countdown of the final three and one-half years of man’s self-rule that will end by May 27, 2012.

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..?
It's LIKELY that you're a cu@t !

New World Order. says...
9:18am Sun 15 Apr 12

I will be looking at the site late sunday afternoon and if it is in a mess i will be reporting to the litter picking people BwD.
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.

Chris P Bacon says...
11:00am Sun 15 Apr 12

News Flash. There is no god. All that guff you came out with there is an indication that your mental state needs monitoring.

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.

Chris P Bacon says...
11:01am Sun 15 Apr 12

My post above is to 'New World Order'.

sen c bl says...
2:16pm Sun 15 Apr 12

There is a god and I speak to HIM whilst going to bed and He speaks to me during the night. Amen.

sen c bl says...
2:16pm Sun 15 Apr 12

There is a god and I speak to HIM whilst going to bed and He speaks to me during the night. Amen.

Chris P Bacon says...
6:30pm Sun 15 Apr 12

sen c bl wrote:
There is a god and I speak to HIM whilst going to bed and He speaks to me during the night. Amen.
You're hearing voices? Maybe you should seek a bit of psychie?

sen c bl says...
7:28pm Sun 15 Apr 12

Hey crisp bacon, you don't know what you're missin

Chris P Bacon says...
9:19pm Sun 15 Apr 12

sen c bl wrote:
Hey crisp bacon, you don't know what you're missin
There's every possibility you are right. Bless you mate.

New World Order. says...
11:02pm Sun 15 Apr 12

Chris P Bacon wrote:
News Flash. There is no god. All that guff you came out with there is an indication that your mental state needs monitoring.

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.
An atheist called crispy complained to his Christian neighbour, "Christians have their special holidays, such as Christmas and Easter; and Jews celebrate their holidays, such as Passover and Yom Kippur; Muslims have their holidays. EVERY religion has its holidays. But we crispy atheists," he said, "have no recognized holidays. It's an unfair discrimination." "What do you mean, crispy atheists have no holidays," his christian neighbour replied, "People have been observing a special day in your honor for years." "I don't know what you're talking about," the crispy atheist said, "When is this special day honoring crispy atheists?" "April first."

sen c bl says...
2:20pm Mon 16 Apr 12

turn the clock back crispy bacon and you'll stop at Adam.

ExFactor says...
1:43am Tue 17 Apr 12

Wow cant believe some of these comments. This nice older man is concerned for his town and some of you twits make him seem like a nosy old coot. You all should be ashamed. This is your country as well. Have some pride and respect for it and the environment.

sen c bl says...
11:30am Tue 17 Apr 12

I salute you ExFactor.

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