VOLUNTEERS ventured beside the seaside to continue their work on a memorial garden.

Members of the Greengrid Taskforce spent about five hours on Saturday tidying up the Labworth memorial garden, on Canvey seafront.

Jackie Humberstone, of Groundwork South Essex, which works with the taskforce, said: "We had a good turnout of volunteers and continued the work that we had started to tidy up these seafront gardens.

"The volunteers spent time weeding the flowerbeds and pruning the shrubs and roses to give the gardens a new lease of life for the spring."