THE fourth annual Beach Clean will take place in Askam in April.

Groups, including Scouts and cubs, and other volunteers will get together to clear litter from a stretch of shore from Dunnerholme to Sandscale Haws on a date to be organised.

Askam and Ireleth parish clerk Jenny Donnelly said the clean was becoming an annual event.

"People are geared up for it and we are trying to get a regular following.

But now we are only cleaning a year's build-up rather than several years," she said.