Walkden schoolchildren made a monster impression during National Spring Clean Week.

St Paul's CE pupils built a little monster during an activity week designed to help them understand the need to look after the environment.

The fearsome creation - made from discarded rubbish - has been on show at Walkden's Ellesmere Centre.

Activities included an environmental mystery game 'Green Man's Secret' at Blackleach Country Park.

Blackleach will be the venue for a huge community clean-up designed to spruce the park up for Summer.

Warden Annie Surtees explained: "The children have used the ideas they picked up to help them devise this huge, monster-like sculpture. They've had great fun and we hope they really get the message to look after the environment."

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