CONVICTED criminals on probation are being invited back to Leigh -- because they did such a good job of cleaning the place up.
People who have committed lesser offences are ordered to serve their sentence improving the community. They have already cleared up graffiti, flyposters and chewing gum from the streets and buildings of the town.
The Grimebusters scheme, which has included cleaning in Golborne and Tyldesley, has proved so successful that town centre co-ordinator Laurie Barton is arranging for it to come back.
She said: "It is a great way to encourage offenders to give something back to the community they have offended against."
The offenders would be asked to clean flyposters from Ellesmere Street.
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