Thank you to the men, women, children and even the dog who help to ensure that visiting our beaches is a pleasant experience.

This week’s photos concentrate mainly on a beach clean at Seascale in 2018 when Sellafield staff and contractors turned up in force to clean up.

While we commend all their work, special mention has to go to Sam the Collie who looked as though he might have bitten off more than he could chew in his efforts to rid the beach of unwanted sticks.

After a warm June and a wet July, who knows what the summer holidays will bring. We could all be heading to the beach or sitting in front of a fire.

Cumbria is made for the outdoor life. We have the fells and numerous fantastic walks. There are the lakes and the beach.

But every single year, every single holiday or long weekend, we get the same story - the tourists come, enjoy and leave their litter behind. By tourist we mean any visitors, whether they are coming from another part of the world or just from their nearby homes.

When you look at what Parton children found during a clean up of their beach. A wardrobe for goodness' sake! One thing is for sure, it is incredibly unlikely that anyone from away carted their furniture to dump on our beaches. That must have been a local.

These photos would indicate that even cleaning up the beach can be fun, although the litter the volunteers manage to pick up is quite horrifying.

Many people are starting to realise that we humans are in danger of destroying our planet both by man-made climate change and by pollution.

There would not be many who would be callous enough to deliberately kill a dolphin or a turtle or even a shark. But those same people would leave plastic and other objects that could strangle or suffocate these creatures.

You are not likely to come across a dolphin while fell walking, but the mess that you leave behind - the tin cans, the plastic wrappers, the disposable barbecues - not only destroy the landscape but, in the case of the latter, certainly, can cause massive destruction of the kind we have seen in Greece recently.

So, to end the sermon, it is time to say thank you to all those who volunteer to clean up our beaches and towns and walkways and to remind the others - take your litter home.