Keep Britain Tidy

Love My Beach aims to ensure the coastline is clean

Campaign to promote cleaner beaches set for revival

Calls for tougher fines and prison time for persistent fly-tippers in Blackpool

Calls for tougher fines and prison time for persistent fly-tippers

Encourage children to dispose of their litter correctly. Photo: Adobe

Going Green: It’s never too early to start litter picking

Beaches in Cleveleys and Rossall have won top awards

Top awards for beaches in Fleetwood and Cleveleys

Three of Blackpool’s prestigious beaches have been granted Seaside Awards (Credit: Blackpool Council)

Three of Blackpool’s beaches recognised in national Seaside Awards

Wyre Council raises the Green Flag

Award-winning Wyre parks let their Green Flags fly

Pollution in the sea at St Anne's

Sewage spills into St Annes sea

Have some fun in the sun at the beach

9 of the best beaches in Lancashire - or less than an hour away by car

Mary's Shell on Cleveleys beach

Fleetwood, Cleveleys and Rossall beaches win Seaside Awards

Blackpool's beaches have won Seaside Awards

Blackpool beaches recognised for their cleanliness with Seaside Awards

Fleetwood's Mount Gardens and Pavilion

Green Flag Award for Fleetwood's Mount Gardens

The walled garden at Worden Park, Leyland. The park is one of just four nationwide that have been awarded Green Flag status every year since the awards' inception in 1996.

Conservation group reveals the Lancashire parks which have won coveted Green Fla...

The Garstang litter pickers

Helping to keep Garstang tidier

Cleaner beaches are thought to be a contributing factor to thriving populations of cetacean species in Fylde coast waters. Picture: Daniel Martino/JPI Media

Covid scuppers Blackpool's Blue Flag bid - but its clean water still brings prom...

Great British Spring Clean in Fleetwood's Memorial Park. David O'Neill with Sinead O'Neill, 13 and Ryan O'Neill, 11.

Spruce up for Fleetwood streets thanks to local volunteers

Fleetwood Beach Picture: Paul Summers

Wyre beaches scoop Seaside Awards

Once again four beaches in Wyre will be flying flags this summer that distinguish them as amongst the best in the country.

Clare Kelly

Fleetwood Beach Picture: Paul Summers

Wyre beaches scoop Seaside Awards

Microplastics on Rossall beach. Environment campaign group LOVEmyBEACH have been made aware of the pollution appearing on shores across the Fylde coast, which can severely harm marine wildlife. Photo: Christine Taylor

'Significant amount' of microplastics washing up on Fylde coast shores

Environment campaign group LOVEmyBEACH are providing Wyre women with reusable sanitary products during the Covid-19 pandemic, amid fears 'period poverty' is affecting many women and teens.

Environment campaign to provide reusable period products through Wyre food bank

Some of the litter collected from the sand at Blackpool recently (Picture: Keep Britain Tidy)

'Seeing beauty of sparkling blue seawater undone by litter louts is unacceptable...

A new survey has found that plastic bottles account for most of the litter dropped on Britains streets, parks and beaches

North west green group calls for deposit scheme on bottles and levy on plastic c...

Wyre council has reinforced the annual dog bans on the bathing water beaches in Cleveleys and Fleetwood.

Dog bans on Wyre beaches back in action

The play area at Jean Stansfield park

Poulton park set to benefit from share of £175,000 to bring thriving green space...

Joanna Taplin (centre) receives her 2019 FHT Complementary Therapist of the Year award from FHT Vice President and Excellence Awards judge, Maria Mason (left) and BBC 2 radio presenter Janey Lee Grace (right)

Poulton holistic beauty business wins national award

The launch of the Green Key scheme with Keep Britain Tidy in London

Blackpool businesses can find going green to be the key to success under new sch...

Fly tipping

Make it easy for people to legally dump waste, environmental campaigners urge

Jez Evans, head of waste and environmental operations at Blackpool Council

This is how Blackpool's beach is kept clean year-round

Meet the man who surely has one of the toughest cleaning jobs in the country.

Shelagh Parkinson

The South Shore beach has lost its Blue Flag status

Blackpool loses Blue Flag status but our beaches across the coast receive impres...

Litter pickers on St Annes beach

St Annes beach wins Seaside Award for fifth year running

South Beach lost its Blue Flag but received a Seaside Award

Beaches in Blackpool and Wyre win EIGHT Seaside Awards

Blackpool South beach

Blackpool beach loses Blue Flag status due to drop in water quality

One of the items Gavin Breakell has found on recent beach cleans of Blackpool shore

Blackpool beach cleaning volunteer says the resort’s shores are getting more and...

Keep Britain Tidy tree planting campaign in Gateside Park, Gateside Drive, Blackpool involving local schoolchildren from Christ The King School, Blackpool Council and our sponsor for the project, wilko

School children help plant trees on Grange Park

Gateside Park in Grange Park is undergoing a transformation

Here is the latest on the Gateside Park revamp in Grange Park

Some of the rubbish collected on the last bank holiday weekend.

Show Fylde beaches some love this weekend

Keep Britain Tidy's new campaign

National campaign challenging 'careful littering' launched

South Beach has retained its Blue Flag

Blackpool beach only one to get Blue Flag in North West

This is how the beach was left on Sunday evening

Picture shows the shameful way beach-goers left the sand after a glorious day of...

Coun Alastair Humphries with the painted footsteps at the Solaris Centre Steve Roberts from Blackpool Council lays down a marker

Taking steps to tackle Blackpool's litter problem!

Volunteers litter picking for Fylde LoveMyBeach

It's snow joke, as litter-pickers brave the cold to clean Blackpool's streets

Lowther Gardens, Lytham

Help lift your favourite park into UK's elite

Vicarage Park in Poulton has been awarded Green Flag status

Wyre parks win second green flag awards

Blackpool beach has received a Blue Flag for the second time. Picture from Blackpool Council.

Blackpool awarded Blue Flag honour second time

Residents are being asked to help clean up litter

Volunteer for spring cleaning events in Blackpool

Keep Blackpool Tidy ambassadors get the message across about keeping the town litter-free

Majority pay up as litter campaign still a priority

Wyre Estuary Country Park has been awarded Green Flag status

Green flag award for riverside park area

Keep Britain Tidy Waste Less, Live More week

More support for Waste Less, Live More

Gavin Stanfield took this image of litter on the beach on May 31 - now, new wardens look set to target those littering in the resort

Enforcers and £80 fines brought in to fight litter menace

Amy Bradshaw of Lancashire Wildlife Trust and Geoff Willetts, Fylde Council's senior coast and countryside officer, celebrate a Seside Award from Keep Britain Tidy

Delight at tidy beach award

In 2014/15 local authorities in England dealt with 900,000 incidents of fly-tipping

New penalties for fly tipping

Richard McIlwain, deputy chief executive of Keep Britain Tidy, and Coun Gillian Campbell, with rubbish collected from Blackpool's streets in just a single day.

Blackpool wages new litter war

Blackpool Councils Waste Services Team was named Environmental Team of the Year 2016 at the annual Keep Britain Tidy awards

Award-winning recycling

Wayne Dixon and his dog Koda with family, volunteers and supporters

Stepping out on 7,000-mile tidy

Coun Simon Blackburn

Another 50 jobs to be slashed in £5m Blackpool Council cuts

Councillor Gillian Campbell

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