Londoners are being offered the chance to get paid to spend sunny weekends in the park - to watch what picnickers do with their litter.

IF THE Keep Britain Tidy campaigners are to be believed, there has been a 20% rise in the number of rats on our sister island.

THE charity Keep Britain Tidy has asked footballers to stop spitting as young people are copying the habit.

Players’ chief Gordon Taylor has rejected criticism of footballers who spit on the pitch, insisting the practice is an unavoidable consequence of strenuous physical activity.

Footballers were today urged to stop spitting – either on the pitch, or at each other.