BEACH cleans over the next two weekends in Dunster, Minehead, and Watchet will be led by local plastic free community groups.

The events along the West Somerset coast will be part of a Marine Conservation Society (MCS) national initiative and as many people as possible are being encouraged to take part.

For the Dunster beach clean on Saturday (September 21), volunteers are being asked to meet in the beach car park before the event, which will run from 11am to 1pm.

On Sunday (September 22), volunteers will meet outside the Beach Hotel, Minehead, for a clean-up of the town’s beach from 1pm to 3pm.

The following weekend, on Saturday, September 28, will be Watchet’s turn from 11am to 12.30pm, with volunteers meeting at the Slipway, West Street Beach.

Litter pickers and sacks will be provided, but volunteers will need to take their own gloves.

The beach cleans are part of the MCS’s annual Great British Beach Clean and the Severn Estuary Big Beach Clean and are being run with the support of Litter Free Coast and Sea – Somerset, Surfers Against Sewage, The Beach Hotel, in Minehead, and Dunster Beach Holidays.

More information is available by emailing [email protected].