MORE than 45 bags of rubbish and green waste were collected from Caversham during a major community clean-up.

Volunteers from Thames Water along with residents and Reading Borough Council’s neighbourhood team joined forces to spruce up the area around Lower Henley Road on Thursday, July 21.

A total of 46 bags were collected as the team swept, cleaned and cut back vegetation around the footpaths during the third Love Clean Reading campaign.

Liz Terry, Reading’s lead councillor for neighbourhoods, said: “The council’s Neighbourhood and Streetcare teams work hard to keep the borough clean but sometimes an extra effort is needed to reach areas a little off the beaten track.

“I’d like to thank Thames Water staff and residents for helping give these alleyways in Caversham a really good spruce up.

“I’m sure people who use them will really notice the difference.

“I hope we can hold many more similar community clean-ups over the coming months.”

During the second clean-up campaign more than 10 tonnes of litter and vegetation were collected between November 2015 and April 2016.