IT'S a dirty business that needs honest workers prepared to get cracking to make their town a better place to live in and one worth visiting.

And that is exactly what will be happening when the recently-launched Love Barrow Town Centre group pulls on the familiar green T-shirts to carry out a Big Clean in the town centre.

Love Barrow Town Centre is a collective initiated by Barrow Bid, Barrow Borough Council, Cumbria County Council, Barrow and Furness MP John Woodcock and The Mail. Its core aim is to restore pride in the town centre.

To kick-start the campaign, the LBTC group is undertaking a Big Clean tomorrow afternoon.

Each of the five signatories to the campaign will be out in Dalton Road and the surrounding streets from 1pm and it is hoped that many of the businesses in the town centre will join in, collecting rubbish and generally cleaning up the areas outside their respective premises.

The campaign is not there to replace the core services of either Barrow Borough Council or Cumbria County Council but to supplement them.

Bid manager Phil Collier said: "As a ‘starter for 10’, it was felt by everyone that an initial clean up would be good to bring us to where we should be and to encourage all town centre businesses to get involved."

All five of the parties to the campaign have signed a pledge to:

 Ensure that they fulfil their respective responsibilities;

 Draw the attention of stakeholders, businesses and members of the public alike to collectively address issues within the town centre;

 Positively promote the town centre at every opportunity;

 Collaborate to achieve the key objective of winning the Great British High Streets competition within the next three years.

Mr Collier added: "Barrow is a town with a great sense of pride and community spirit – events like the Love Barrow Awards demonstrates that in spades – so LBTC is all about ensuring that the same pride and community spirit is focused on the town centre itself.

"After all, if the five partners to LBTC are fulfilling their collective responsibilities, we need every business and every individual to do the same."

The Big Clean participants are to gather at 1pm outside the doors of the Marks and Spencer store in Dalton Road.

Any business that would like to get involved in the Big Clean tomorrow should contact the Bid manager at manager@barrowbid.co.uk