JULIE Hinsley from Horwich, has brushed aside the opposition to land a top job aimed at spring-cleaning Britain. Julie, 28, of Mary Street West, is Tidy Britain Group's new National Campaigns Co-ordinator, which means she will be making sure that millions of volunteers have everything they need to take part in National Spring Clean. National Spring Clean is the largest annual tidy-up in the UK, and it asks groups of volunteers to get together and clean-up a bit of their local patch.

Last year, 99 groups of people from Bolton took part.

The campaign takes place over April, and until then Julie will be organising publicity events and competitions, trying to raise awareness in the media and making sure that the three million people taking part have all the information, posters, bin bags and tabards they need.

Next year, she will also be helping to pioneer an autumn campaign. The Countryside Offensive, which will see scores of volunteers clearing up rural land in Wales, the Midlands and East Anglia.

A former pupil at St Catherine's Primary School, Rivington and Blackrod High School and Bolton College, where she studied Communications and Business, Julie joined Tidy Britain Group in July 1995.

She is currently studying for her Certificate in Communications, Advertising and Marketing.

In her spare time, Julie enjoys playing badminton and watching Formula 1. She also does voluntary work for the breast-cancer charity, Breakthrough, and has successfully completed a parachute jump in aid of Macmillan Nurses!

Julie said: "Since it began in 1990, Spring Clean has grown massively and has become an important event in the national calendar. Co-ordinating such a massive campaign will prove quite a challenge. But it's one I am really looking forward to."

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