With buckets and brooms, hundreds of people arrived to help, report Liam Murphy and John Sutton

NEIGHBOURS in Liverpool and Wirral took to the streets yesterday determined to rectify the damage done by yobs on the rampage.

Armed with brushes and buckets, a crowd in Liverpool who organised themselves using social networking websites came together and deployed across the riot-hit streets.

The group, which was more than 100-strong, worked from around 9am clearing debris and “showing the real spirit of people in this city”, according to one of the volunteers.

The clean-up operation, which took place in Earle Road, Lawrence Road, Smithdown Road, Lodge Lane and other streets around Toxteth, was organised by 21-year-old bartender Charles Jupiter, who set up a facebook group called Clean Up Liverpool when he saw the first night of destruction on Monday.

Speaking to the Daily Post at the Earl Marshall pub, on Earle Road, where mobs had put in windows and looted bottles of drink, he said: “The rioters aren’t the only ones organising themselves via social networking sites, we can do it, too. We’ll do more cleaning up than they make mess, and there’s more of us, they can’t win.”