Joe Pauly, of Lincoln Road, Werrington, Peterborough, made it a personal crusade to try to keep an underpass near his home spick and span, and the council is so impressed it has been giving him advice and equipment to carry on his good work.
Joe started clearing litter from the subway near Kiddicare months ago, after noticing a group of youths drinking there.
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2007: the year in review - news, sports, business, entertainment, photos, videos and the most read stories online.22nd: TALK about one for the road! Wisbech road worker David Edwards was jumping for joy as he and three colleagues picked up a whopping £4.2 million lottery cheque.
The 63-year-old was part of a work syndicate which scooped a massive cash jackpot following a National Lottery midweek Lotto draw.
However, rather than being showered with champagne when they discovered their good fortune, the quartet were parked up in a car park in King's Lynn when a colleague read out their lucky numbers from a newspaper.
28th: A TRUSTED employee at the heart of the city's passport office was jailed for three-and-a-half years for running a fake documents racket.
Without anyone suspecting what was going on, brazen Abid Hussain pushed through phoney UK passport applications for illegal immigrants sent to Peterborough by an underworld figure in London.
A court heard that Hussain (35) of Oxford Road, Millfield, Peterborough, used his position as an executive officer at the Identity and Passport Office, in Northminster, to avoid the strict security checks.
In an elaborate scam, Hussain faked the signatures of colleagues, borrowed their computers to approve false applications and forged security barcodes.
Most read stories on peterboroughtoday.co.uk: March 2007The full article contains 383 words and appears in Peterborough ET newspaper.
