STREET sweepers' bosses believe they can beat the 'dirty street' tag.
Figures analysed by the GMB trade union said Warrington had the third dirtiest streets in the north west - with 27 per cent dirty at any one time.
But the council recently spent £70,000 on five new street cleaning machines - which can do the work of six people on foot.
They range from the small, nimble Scarabs to the huge, lumbering Johnson 600.
The streets are currently running at a dirty figure of 25 per cent - and the inner areas of town are the problem.
The Environmental Services Department hopes to hit the 18 per cent figure by 2008.
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