A pushchair, scooter, wide screen TV, bicycle frame and condoms were among the items cleared in a litter pick.

The volunteers also found large toys including a children's pedal car, clocks, bags of domestic rubbish, chairs, vases, cans and plastic bottles.

More than 70 bags of waste were filled by two Rotary Clubs at Dover's Buckland Estate last Saturday.

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The cleanup parties were from the Rotary Clubs of Dover and South Foreland.

They initially split into three groups to clear rubbish, firstly from the length of the Green Lane footpath, working from its top down.

They also worked on Melbourne Avenue and the section above Whitfield Avenue and Brookfield Avenue.

The task was organised by Dover vice president Tony Cook and South Foreland Rotarian Mike Prebble.

The volunteers also covered the footpath bank between the Shatterlocks School boundary and the bridge over the Dover to Deal railway.

That area was covered by Dover Rotary president Barbara Stapleton, district governor-elect Don Soppitt, and Dover past president Peter Sherred.

The 70 bags were taken away by waste contractors Veolia.

Mr Sherred, who is also a Keep Britain Tidy Ambassador, said: "This was a tremendous effort by volunteers to celebrate the 114th birthday of Rotary as well as showing the pride members have for the town.

"This area was cleared two years ago and the worrying aspect of this latest effort is the sheer quantity of material collected.

"It proves that many people simply use our open spaces as their personal dustbin areas. It is a disgrace and shames the town.

"However this result shows what can be achieved when people come together.”