Anti-graffiti group up for award

A group set up to combat graffiti in Bristol has been nominated for two national environmental awards.

The Bristol Graffiti Partnership is one of four groups shortlisted for the ENCAMS People and Places awards.

The partnership is made up of representatives from the police, the city council and other local groups.

It discourages graffiti through education and campaigns, and carries out targeted graffiti removal around the city.

The group will find out if it has won the awards, for best partnership working and best local environmental initiative, at a ceremony in Birmingham on 22 February.

Bristol city councillor Matthew Symonds said: "To be the only body of its kind in the South West to get this far is a tremendous achievement.

"It demonstrates that the partnership is beginning to have a real impact, but there is still much to be done."

ENCAMS (Environmental Campaigns) is the charity which runs the Keep Britain Tidy programme.