Big Dee Day sees the river cleaned up

VOLUNTEERS turned up for a big clean-up of the River Dee.

The civic dignitaries, Cheshire County Council chairman Steve Wilkinson and Chester’s deputy lord mayor Paul Cheetham, were on hand to congratulate those who had been involved including helpers from the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers.

City council countryside manager Mike O’Kell organised the clean-up of an area near Chester Castle.

Elsewhere on the internationally important estuary, hundreds of volunteers scoured the banks for rubbish as part of the annual “Big Dee Day” 48-hour clean-up.

Those taking part ranged from Airbus workers to schoolchildren, including community groups, fishermen on the estuary and Army, Air and Sea Cadets.