A school area cleaned of litter before the summer holiday has been trashed again.

Volunteers who worked in time for the Dover St Mary’s Primary School’s sports day have now had to pick up more than 200 discarded bottles and cans.

Members of the Rotary Club of Dover had to go back into action just two months after the last major clean-up.

The trash count now added up to 152 cans, 47 plastic bottles and 42 glass bottles, including 24 vodka ones.

Past president Peter Sherred said; “Members of the club spent a considerable time in early July cleaning a huge quantity of items dropped over the last year in this location.

“It is a very sad reflection on our town and society that just two months on we are here once gain removing such a quantity of rubbish dumped near to where children play.

“It demonstrates a wilful disregard for the interests of the youngsters as well as the school and a total contempt for the amenities and the environment.”

The rubbish this time was left on the outside perimeter of the Laureston Place school’s sports field though some did end up inside the field.

It was on a footpath between Maison Dieu Road and Harold Street, between the school and its playing field, where litter is regularly dropped.

Notices have now been put up on the school fence asking people to use the litter bin at the playing field gates.

Volunteer cleaners have had a constant battle over littering in and around the town.

In August Mr Sherred reported two settees and a washing machine dumped by the side of Old Charlton Road and a bicycle tossed into a hedge at Pineham Way, Guston.

A total 10 sackloads of rubbish have had to be removed from verges in the Guston area over the last year.

Meanwhile bagged-up rubbish and old bottles were strewn around Deal Road near the town’s Jubilee Way.