Residents celebrate after transforming local 'disaster' dumping ground: 'Used to irritate me so much'

Residents celebrate after transforming local 'disaster' dumping ground: 'Used to irritate me so much'

Two residents of Leek, Staffordshire, England, turned an unofficial dumping ground into a community garden in just a year, the BBC reported. The project began with Neil Collingwood. In February 2024, after being diagnosed with leukemia and starting chemotherapy, he was looking for a project to take his mind off his situation. "This used to irritate me so much that I just decided that I needed a project to get stuck into," Collingwood told the BB…