CELEBRATIONS will be held on the Rame Peninsula tomorrow afternoon (Sat Jun 3) as campaigners rejoice in a ‘Dump-Free Whitsand Bay’.

After years of community efforts to bring an end to the dumping of dredged silt off Rame Head, an alternative site was designated earlier this year.

The event at Tregonhawke  is being organised by Tonny Steenhagen, who together with his wife Deb had been preparing to mount a second legal action against the Marine Management Organisation, had a new site not been identified.

Last week, Deb and Tonny watched the first consignment of spoil sail out to the newly designated ‘Plymouth Deep’ site.

‘With mixed emotions we watched the very first dredger sail tonight to the new dumpsite,’ they said.

‘No sense of victory, but, after years of campaigning we have managed to make Whitsand Bay a safer place. We hope that what we have achieved as a community serves as a precedent towards better care for our seas.’