A LITTLE girl has made her mark on a neglected corner of Bexley with a bit of help from her MP.

Every day Georgia-lea Rowe, eight, of Grazeley Close, Bexleyheath, passes the old drinking fountain and cattle trough which sits at the top of Watling Street outside St Catherine's RC Girls' School.

She was so upset at the way the trough had been neglected and filled with cigarette ends, chewing gum and other rubbish, that she decided to write to Bexleyheath MP David Evennett.

She told him: "It is such a shame to see this lovely thing which has survived the past, ruined in this way."

She asked him if it was possible to fill the trough, built to provide drinking water for people and animals after climbing the long hill out of Crayford to Bexleyheath, with plants and flowers instead of the rubbish.

Mr Evennett passed her idea on to Bexley Council which told her that, as a result of her suggestion, the trough is to be filled with plants for this autumn.