THE first volunteer beach cleaning session of 2018 for Beach Buddies will involve a clean-up of the beach where the charity started 10 years ago - Ballaugh.

Following the storms of this week, the beach has been filled with large numbers of items, mostly plastic bottles, which will keep the volunteers fully occupied on Sunday morning from 10.30am.

Five-thousand bottles were collected in one day on the first official event 10 years ago.

There is no need to register. Organisers say volunteers should just turn up and join in.

Beach Buddies supplies all the kit such as gloves, bags and litter pickers.

The charity removes all the materials collected, recycling items such as glass bottles, tin cans, plastic bottles, hard plastics and metal.

It takes place from 10.30am on Sunday, January 7, at Ballaugh Cronk.