A CAMPAIGN to cut litter in Ledbury is being hailed a success, with John Masefield High School winning praise for its efforts.

Catherine Luck, the town councillor who launched the campaign, is now calling for more litter bins, saying there are too few bins, too far apart.

Coun Luck has already raised her concerns with Herefordshire Council.

She said: "I stepped out the bins from the town to the John Masefield High School, on the Ledbury Park side. There is a bin at the Market House and another outside Spar, then nothing at all until the brow of the Gloucester Road, well after the school.

"On the other side of the road, from the one outside Lloyds TSB, I measured 184 steps to the next bin in the Southend."

Coun Luck wants two further bins along the Southend, on the Ledbury Park side, costing in the region of £600.

She pointed out Southend residents regularly go out with black bags to tidy up the street but believes that the school is not to blame.

She said: "The school has a breakfast club where pupils can buy food, and no junk food and fizzy drinks are served and no litter allowed out of the club. A guard is on duty to prevent this."

She said she believed head Andy Evans was doing his utmost, although he had no jurisdiction over pupils before and after school.

She added The Baker's Oven, in High Street, popular with youngsters, was telling children no food would be served to them unless they first agreed to put the bags in a bin.

Mr Evans said: "Several of our students regularly visit the town to help pick up litter. This is part of their active citizenship work."