It looks as if someone wanted to create an outdoor lounge.

Two settees, are left side by side at Old Charlton Road, Dover, but even the cushions are lobbed on the ground.

But other scenes show a disgusting mess of bagged-up rubbish and old bottles strewn around Deal Road near the town’s Jubilee Way.

These are the latest images of Dover’s litter and fly-tipping scourge provided by campaigners Peter Sherred and Adeline Reidy.

They now fear that this behaviour is now being considered too acceptable, even inevitable.

Mrs Reidy, of the town’s Castle Street Society, said: “It would be good if we can recapture the spirit of an earlier age when people were to be seen sweeping and often washing the areas serving their properties in public view to keep them clean and tidy.”

Mr Sherred, of Dover Rotary Club, has focused on clearing litter from local roads and their verges in the Guston area and has removed 10 sackloads of rubbish over the last 12 months alone.

He says: “The most usual items are plastic bottles, beer and other drink cans, takeaway meal boxes as well as general paper rubbish.

“Dropping such items is a moronic activity carried out by thoughtless people who clearly do not have a pride in their surroundings and the beautiful environment in which we are privileged to live.

“Such people do no stop their activities in the winter periods so it is crucial for individuals and community organisers to start clearing the rubbish now while verges in particular are in a period of low growth.

“Sadly it is the council taxpayer who has to foot the bill for the clearance of rubbish by thoughtless and uncaring individuals.”

For the full story see this Thursday's Dover Mercury.