Recently a lady who lives in Hala contacted the local Green Party. She walks her dog along the path from Bentham Road and through the cut-through into Barnacre Close and had noticed the paths were getting overgrown with weeds. Could we please ask the Council to tidy it up?

Knowing the Public Realm Department was very stretched, Green Councillors Andrew Otway and Hamish Mills, armed with spades, brushes and rakes, etc., decided to take the task on. They tidied all the path-edges and over a couple of afternoons’ work managed to fill fifteen green garden-waste bags with weeds.