Saturday morning in Stansted. A team of 30-40 people set out to clean up the village of litter and rubbish that makes the place scruffy.

Volunteers collect their sacks and litter-pickers.

My wife, Catherine, our next door neighbour, Peter Brown, and I tackled Platt’s Alley leading from the recreation ground to Silver Street. We filled 13 large sacks with leaf mould and vegetation that had encroached onto the pathway.

Platts Alley before work began.

Job nearly done.

Thirteen bags later, job done – for today!

Stansted is a community that works.