A WEST FIFE primary school has been named the Fife champions of an environmental charities litter league. 

Crossgates Primary won the Fife, Tay and Central category for the Keep Scotland Beautiful Litter League after they collected an incredible 57 bags of rubbish. 

It comes after they scooped the national prize last year by collecting 73 bags of litter.

Barry Fisher, chief executive at Keep Scotland Beautiful, said: “After such an amazing first year of our Litter League competition, I’m thrilled to see even more young people across Scotland getting involved this time around.

“We’re still finalising our total number for this year’s #SpringCleanScotland but we’ve comfortably surpassed 40,000, beating last year’s total of dedicated litter-picking volunteers by more than 10,000, and the Litter League has proven once again that people of all ages are passionate about tackling Scotland’s litter emergency.

“Thanks to all the teachers and young people who got involved and made an effort and a huge congratulations to all our winners.”

Central Fife Times: Crossgates PS won the prize for their efforts

Almost 6,000 pupils took part in the competition which formed part of the charity’s annual #SpringCleanScotland challenge and 5,864 young people, supported by more than 1,000 adults, across primary and secondary schools, affiliated and unaffiliated youth groups, families and colleges took part.

In total those young people completed 185 clean-ups across 30 local authority areas.

All category winners received a #SpringCleanScotland trophy to keep for one year as part of our commitment to sustainability.

All participants received a Litter League certificate to acknowledge and thank them for all their efforts.