A band on their way to play at a Norfolk music festival stopped off to join activists on a beach clean.
Environmental group the Paul Watson Foundation UK, known as Neptune's Pirates, carried out the sweep of the beach and dunes at Old Hunstanton under stormy skies on Saturday.
They were joined by members of left-leaning folk band Ferocious Dog, who were on their way from their base in Nottinghamshire to headline the Folk in a Field fest at West Acre, near Swaffham, that evening.
"It's massively important to conserve our oceans and our world," said singer Ken Bonsall.
"I've been on all these beaches, all round to Cromer. They should be beautiful beaches, but they're not.
"It's people. How many people leave things behind, chuck things in the sea and leave them to volunteers to pick up?"
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The answer to that at Old Hunstanton was 45kg of waste, collected in the space of a little over two hours.
It included plastic bottles, drinks cans, vapes, balloons and fishing line to dog poo bags and even less savoury human waste.
Around a dozen people took part in the group's third clean-up at Old Hunstanton this year, along with the band, armed with pickers and bin bags.
They met afterwards to weigh their haul before adding it to the trailer placed at the entrance to the beach for people to place their rubbish in.
Nic Clifford, regional co-ordinator for the Paul Watson Foundation UK, said the group had so far carried out 50 beach cleans around the UK in 2024, involving almost 1,000 people.
Activists have removed six tonnes of rubbish, which is equivalent to more than a million polystyrene cups, 194,000 plastic soft drink bottles or enough fishing line to stretch from London to New Zealand.
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