NEIGHBOURS in Gorses Mount and Top o' th' Gorses, Darcy Lever, showed plenty of community spirit when they held a clean-up day.

They gave their backing to the Bolton Evening News's Pride of Bolton campaign by picking up litter and clearing rubbish from their streets.

Then they joined other members of the Darcy Lever Residents Association in setting up an action group to protect the wildlife around a disused railway cutting.

Residents' spokesman Neil Duffield said: "We are trying to link in with the Pride of Bolton campaign and hope to encourage young people to preserve and protect the local environment.

"The residents hope to establish the railway cutting as a nature reserve and will be monitoring the animals and plant life over the summer."

"We will be asking everyone, especially children and young people, to keep careful records of the local wildlife in the coming months."