OLD boots, an ice cream seller’s parasol, tins, crisp packets, metal and a bicycle handlebar were just some of the bits of rubbish cleared up from the streets of Oxfordshire.

Armed with litter pickers, more than 20 residents in Hinksey Hill and South Hinksey collected about 24 bags full of rubbish in just an hour.

Organiser Maggie Rawcliffe, chairman of South Hinksey Parish Council, said: “We do it every year to have a village spring clean.

“If you have got lots of people beavering away it makes a difference really quickly. It all looks much nicer now.”

Volunteer Hilary Briffett, of Hinksey Hill, takes part every year.

She said: “It annoys me to find so much rubbish out there. People throw it from cars.”