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Article: Alex and his team's holiday clean-up.
- Article from:
- Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England)
- Article date:
- April 3, 2007
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MOST youngsters will spend the school holidays playing football or computer games.
However, one nine-year-old boy from Stokesay Court, Longthorpe, Peterborough, has ditched the PlayStation and games in the park to become a litter picker - even setting up his own litter picking team.
Alex Hill was inspired to carry out a litter pick in the school holidays after reading about Joe Pauly (11) of Lincoln Road, Werrington, Peterborough, in The Evening Telegraph last month.
Joe made it a personal crusade to try to keep an underpass near his home spick and span.
In a bid to tidy up the area he lives in, armed with litter pickers and dustbing ...