Teignmouth residents are being urged to roll up their sleeves and become litter heroes for a big spring clean on Saturday (March 29).

The event, which coincides with the Keep Britain Tidy Big Spring Clean and the Surfers Against Sewage Spring Clean, starts at 10am in The Triangle.

Volunteers will then head around the town and along the beaches to get the town ready for the summer.

Last year’s big spring clean in Teignmouth generated 18 bags of litter weighing 15 kilos.

The annual Teignmouth Spring Clean organisers, councillors David Cox and Penny Lloyd, plan to count the bags of litter again this year so they can send the data to be compiled as part of the national spring clean statistics.