Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Litter campaign becomes a work of art

Published: 7:30AM GMT twenty-six February 2010

Litter at the side of the A1, photographed by Richard Broom Litter at the side of the A1, photographed by Richard Broom Photo: GEOFF ROBINSON

Richard Broom, 56, has outlayed hours photographing spawn along the UK"s main roads and posting them on a Blog in a bid to get Gordon Brown to neat up Britain.

But his inventive photographs, together with a damaged toilet and bottles of urine, have spin so renouned he is removing design requests from opposite the globe.

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"It"s unequivocally bizarre that people wish to spin my photos of balderdash in to art," pronounced Mr Broom.

"I"ve had lots of requests from people in America for copies of my cinema to put on their walls.

"One of them was utterly penetrating on my print of a crumpled up coke can."

Richard"s spawn debate proposed when he was pushing along the A1 to London.

"I expostulate to London utterly mostly and one day I happened to notice the piles of balderdash along the highway and as I carried on I saw it was everywhere all along the verges," he said.

"When you are whizzing down the main road at 70 mph you don"t lend towards to notice it but if you stop and see you see what a state the roads are in.

"It"s a genuine annoyance for Britain and shows that people only don"t caring about the panorama any more."

Mr Broom, from Thurlby Moor, Lincolnshire, motionless to begin recording the balderdash on the UK"s verges by receiving pictures.

"One layby I came opposite was similar to a cesspit since it was so full of rubbish," he said.

"It was go through churning and even had bottles of urine flung out of windows by truck drivers.

"It is a vital issue, it is unsightly and it causes pollution."

He has right away created an open minute to Prime Minister Gordon Brown and posted it on his website for people to brazen to their MPs and councillors.