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Digging deep: Mike Wadham, project manager and volunteer tree warden co-ordinator; farmer Alan Gosling; Charlie Youthed, Environmental Design Ltd employee; and Clive Dawson, TDC's Tree and Landscape officer and TDC's Tree Council representative. Picture: A MILESTONE has been reached in a tree planting initiative in Tendring with the last of 30,000 saplings bedded into the ground. The Tendring Woodland Initiative Group (TWIG) set out to plant 30,000 trees to mark the 30th anniversary of the Tree Council – which Tendring Council has been part of since it was founded. Volunteer tree ward...

Digging deep: Mike Wadham, project manager and volunteer tree warden co-ordinator; farmer Alan Gosling; Charlie Youthed, Environmental Design Ltd employee; and Clive Dawson, TDC's Tree and Landscape officer and TDC's Tree Council representative. Picture: A MILESTONE has been reached in a tree planting initiative in Tendring with the last of 30,000 saplings bedded into the ground. The Tendring Woodland Initiative Group (TWIG) set out to plant 30,000 trees to mark the 30th anniversary of the Tree Council – which Tendring Council has been part of since it was founded. Volunteer tree ward...

Electric feel: Colin Bennett with his elecric taxi A CABBIE has become the first in Tendring to ply his trade with an all-electric vehicle. Colin Bennett, Secretary of the Tendring District Taxi Association (TDTA), has had his new Nissan Leaf electric vehicle licensed by Tendring Council. Although some cabs in the district are hybrids, it is the first all-electric vehicle to get taxi plates. Vehicles with a low CO2 emission can be licensed for up to 13 years, rather than 12 years, in an effort to encourage the use of environmentally friendly vehicles. Mr Bennett, 69, from Colchester...

LARGER bins have been installed along seafronts across Tendring in a bid to help tackle littering. Each summer, Tendring Council contractors Veolia put out an additional 150 bins along seafronts to provide places for visitors to dispose of their rubbish. However, even with regular clearing and calls for people to take their rubbish home or to another bin, littering and overspill has remained a persistent issue. Now, larger bins have been put in place across busy sites to help boost capacity. As well as having more space to hold rubbish – being 340 litres instead of 240 litres – ...

LARGER bins have been installed along seafronts across Tendring in a bid to help tackle littering. Each summer, Tendring Council contractors Veolia put out an additional 150 bins along seafronts to provide places for visitors to dispose of their rubbish. However, even with regular clearing and calls for people to take their rubbish home or to another bin, littering and overspill has remained a persistent issue. Now, larger bins have been put in place across busy sites to help boost capacity. As well as having more space to hold rubbish – being 340 litres instead of 240 litres – ...