Parish plan committee chairman Nick Worth teamed up with our Spalding Guardian Grot Spot campaign to highlight problem areas.

He called on South Holland District Council's clean-up team to come to the town and wants to help rid Holbeach of its worst grot spots and restore pride in the parish.

DUMPED sacks of refuse, takeaway wrappers and discarded television sets are just some of the things that have stacked up in grot spots across Holbeach.

Boston Road car park, the A17 underpass at Park Road and the side of Hurn Road had been targeted as spots where litter, graffiti and fly-tipping have built up.

Piles of black and green bags of rubbish had been stacked by the recycling containers in the car park in the centre of the town.

The rubbish mounts up and Coun Nick Worth says it is frustrating to see, given that people could put a lot of the material there out for weekly refuse and recycling collections.

He said: "It's a fairly regular problem and it doesn't look very good.

"We need to see if we can put something here for people to put their rubbish in to stop this happening but then it wouldn't be easy to control what was put in there."

The bags were cleared by street cleansing supervisor Ernie Ward and his team, including Norman Bellamy, whose job it is to keep on top of litter in the town centre.

He said: "I litter pick the town in the morning and by 10am there's more there. People don't recognise the work that you have done."

Mr Ward said: "The British people want to stand back and let other people do the job. Norman does his best but he can't be everywhere. Why can't we maybe have some of these people on community service to help out?

"We live in a beautiful country but it is only beautiful if we look after it."

Coun Worth says he hopes the Spalding Guardian Grot Spot campaign and the parish plan can inspire people to stop dropping their litter and raise the profile of the parish.

He said: "It would help if we can create pride in Holbeach and the Britain in Bloom committee already does a great job in Holbeach."