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A Welshman known as "Robbie the Rubbish" came to Scotland clutching a pile of black bin bags after hearing about the litter left on Ben Nevis, and spent two days clearing the rubbish left by visitors on the main path.

"If one person from Wales can travel to Scotland and pick litter then why can't people in Scotland do it?" he asked.

A good question.

Ken Howett, national officer of the Mountaineering Council of Scotland, said: "This was a really selfless act - fantastic. If other people had that sort of motivation it would not take long to clear Ben Nevis ".

Beneath him and his organization to pick up litter, no doubt.

And beneath the people who run the Nevis Centre, which is the biggest piece of rubbish in the whole area. Of course they don't have time for such lowly tasks, being there simply to claw in money from the visitors who leave their litter on the mountain.

While the large English community in their Highland middle class ghettos are willing to work extremely hard setting up committees against everything from wind power to electricity pylons, and for saving the hedgehogs and getting street lighting in villages with a population of three, clearing rubbish involves getting the hands dirty, so no help there.

The Highland Council, perhaps? Certainly not. That would involve rubbish bins and the council don't believe in those, even in lay-bys on the roads, because locals might put rubbish in them. (You think I'm kidding now - I'm not).

Highlanders then? No chance, they are an ethnic minority in their own land, so that would be discriminatory - and I never see Highlanders here doing very much of anything anyway.

That would appear to leave me.

Bugger off - I can't stand the bloody place anyway.

So if "Rob the Rubbish" reads this, could he please get back up here and start on the lay-bys on the main tourist route North, the A9. Nobody else is going to do it.



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