Ipswich cleanest Town in England - official

4.36.31pm GMT Wed 14th Mar 2007

Lib Dems like Inga have made Ipswich cleanest Town in UK

NATIONAL AWARDS: IPSWICH CLEANS UP

Ipswich was today celebrating after scooping the Clean

Britain Award for

2007.

"This is an award for the whole town," said Councillor Inga

Lockington,

Ipswich Borough Council's Environment portfolio-holder.

"There is great pride in Ipswich and residents told us they

wanted a cleaner

Ipswich. We have invested a lot of money in street cleaning,

set up a

graffiti squad and combined litter enforcement with

education in schools.

That investment is paying off. This is excellent news and I

am very proud of

my hard-working staff and of all the residents."

Ipswich battled its way to the final of the British Cleaning

Council - Clean

Britain Award 2007 and pipped the London borough of Lewisham

to the post.

The Borough Council spends more than a quarter of a million

pounds each year

cleaning the streets of Ipswich. Anyone who sees litter,

graffiti or

fly-tipping should telephone the Cleaner Ipswich Hotline,

01473 433000.