RESIDENTS of one of Lancashire's most notorious roads have given up their efforts to clean it up.

The Grane Residents' Association have decided to stop their regular litter collections on the Haslingden to Blackburn road and cancel the annual daffodil-bulb planting because the traffic has become too heavy.

Chairman Tim Barlow said several residents had been worried about the clean-up operations at a meeting last week. He said: "We've planted about 15 sacks of daffodil bulbs every year for about five years. We wanted to fill all the hedgerows on both sides with flowers from Haslingden to Clough Head every spring.

"But last year the traffic was heavier and it was a bit hairy. This year we decided it wasn't safe to have people kneeling in the hedgerows in the evenings, especially as there are only footpaths on one side of the road. It's just not worth putting people at risk." This year, the residents will plant the bulbs on the wide grass verge next to the Holden Arms pub.

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