Co-operative group cooperate on Carnoustie beach clean up

Colleagues from branches of the Co-operative Group and their families joined forces with the community council to help clean up the beach at Carnoustie at the weekend.

Organiser Ken Greenshields, membership officer for the firm in East Scotland, said: “The Co-operative plays an important role in the communities it serves, and by getting together with the community council for a simple activity like this we can benefit the local area.”

Davina Sturrock of the community council said: “It was not only a clean up, it was an entertaining event. Some 18 bags of rubbish were collected, a lot of scrap metal and tyres seem to be the thing that’s coming in.”

More than 30 people attended over the course of the event.

There will be another clean up at the beach at the end of this month in relation to Keep Scotland Beautiful, and a larger event on Septemper 22.