A supermarket is supporting efforts by villagers to clean up their community.
David Russell, manager of Morrisons, in Bishop Auckland, presented £100 to the 2nd Bishop Auckland Cub Scouts, who joined a clean-up organised by the Escomb and Witton Park Community Partnership.
They picked up rubbish in the centre of Escomb where residents had become dismayed by drinks cans and food wrappers dumped on grass verges around the village's Anglo-Saxon church.
Partnership chairman Ian Heslop and his wife, Lyn, joined the Cubs at the cheque presentation.
The company's contribution was part of a Community Service Volunteers Action Earth campaign, which is supporting community environmental projects across the country.
Mr Russell said: "It is good to see the young people getting involved in a project like this."
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