Beach Buddies breaks record

Wednesday, 20 June 2018 07:40

By Leanne Cooke @leannelily18

Hundreds of people took part in a record-breaking mission in freshening up the Island's beaches at the weekend.

An army of 356 volunteers - including the Island's Chief Minister and 14 members of Tynwald - cleaned 11 beaches across the Isle of Man with FIM Capital Beach Buddies.

Their founder, Bill Dale, has thanked everyone who took part in maintaining the "very special environment and unique wildlife" in the beach clean on Sunday.

The number of people who took part surpassed their previous record of 229 volunteers for another of their events back in April.

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