VILLAGERS in Luss rolled up their sleeves on Saturday to make sure the bonnie banks are looking at their best ahead of the year’s first major influx of visitors.

Following in the footsteps of similar events in previous years, volunteers from throughout the Luss and Arden area gathered in the village on Saturday to pick up months of accumulated litter both in the village itself and in surrounding glens.

With the Easter school holidays due to begin this weekend, significant numbers of visitors are expected in Luss over the next two weeks.

And the litter-pickers of all ages, working under the auspices of the Luss and Arden Community Development Trust, gathered with bin-bags, hi-viz vests, gloves and litter pickers to improve the approaches to the village, the village itself, and the two glens in the hills above to get the area looking at its best.

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Teas, coffee and bacon butties were supplied prior to the 9am start by the Village Rest and once time was called on the clean-up at 12.30pm, The Lomond Arms Hotel helped warm everyone with soup and sandwiches.

David McCowan, from the Luss and Arden Community Development Trust, told the Advertiser: “I would like to thank all the volunteers who came to help us on Saturday for the regular pre-summer litter pick.

“This took in the old road from the Loch Lomond Golf Club, up to and including the village of Luss, Luss Glen, Glen Douglas and Suie Field.

“We had around 30 volunteers from the community and also further afield who between them filled 50 bags of rubbish.

“A big thank you to Luss estates for supplying the equipment and to the Village Rest and the Loch Lomond Arms for keeping our volunteers fed and watered."

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As previously reported in the Advertiser, community clean-ups have taken place in recent weeks in Rhu, Kilcreggan, Garelochhead and Arrochar, though the focus in those communities is primarily on cleaning up the marine litter which washes up in the Clyde’s sea lochs every year.

(Picture credits: Brodie Duncan)