It has taken 20 years but, at long last, abandoned Cleethorpes flowerbeds are being restored

                         The first shrubs and bulbs have been planted - and there may be more to follow

FOUR Cleethorpes flowerbeds that had been neglected for at least 20 years are now back in business. 

Thanks to an initiative by ward councillors Bob Callison and Graham Reynolds, broken glass, sweet wrappers and other litter have been replaced with topsoil, shrubs and spring-flowering bulbs. 

The beds are at the busy junctions of Highgate, Trinity Road and Sandringham Road.

Councillors are often criticised for plenty of words and no action, but this duo showed they were prepared to roll up their sleeves and get on with the job on behalf of Lincolnshire Housing Partnership which, to its discredit, showed little appetite to make the improvements.

                                          

Forlorn and unloved - how the flowerbeds have looked for the past 20 years