[JohnW]

There is more than one thread on this forum about the disgusting amount of dog **** in the streets of Accrington. The Springhill area comes in for particular mention. Why don't we try to improve matters on this complaint. Here is one idea:

If you see some dog has made a mess outside your house clear it up. Why not print out a dozen notices and put them through the letterboxes of your neighbours asking them to do the same and ask them to print some notices out of their own and put them through letterboxes further along the road and over the other side of the street. Point out the advantages of not stepping in the damn stuff and walking it in the house. The obvious fact that the street will look a lot better without it. If you see someone allowing their dog to crap in your vicinity, gang up on the b@st@rds with your neighbours and tell them to either clean it up or start walking their dog somewhere else. If anyone is willing to give this a try, let us know how you are going on after a couple of weeks, if things have improved or not. Anybody else who has any better or other ideas about this particular problem, post it on here and let's see how we get on.