A £2m plan to clean up Leicester has been unveiled – giving a huge boost to the Leicester Mercury’s Cleaning Up the Streets campaign.

For the past three months the Mercury has been regularly highlighting the problem ‘grotspots’ that readers have written to the paper about, and has already seen improvements.

And the new cash injection will help to keep up the work that the campaign has started.

The plans include a cleansing team, which will focus on the city centre, using nine new street sweepers, with streets being cleaned every three hours, instead of every four.

Extra street cleaning will also be done after pubs and nightclubs close.

The team of street cleaners will also be responsible for removing fly-posting on lamp posts and street furniture, and one hundred new litter bins will be put in key areas.

There will be two city centre graffiti removal staff targeting problem areas and the council aims to keep the city centre spotless by employing a litter warden with the power to hand out on-the-spot fines to litterbugs.

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