Kind-hearted Perthshire kid hailed for gritting pavements in his village

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A Perthshire councillor has thanked an inspirational 10-year-old who has been clearing and gritting paths by presenting him with all the equipment needed to do the job.Primary five pupil Charlie Hay has become a familiar sight on the footpaths of Inchture armed with a shovel and trundling his trolley with a bucket filled with rock salt.Carse of Gowrie councillor Angus Forbes called the heroic schoolboy the "absolute epitome" of how local residents can work together to help others.The selfless schoolboy has been clearing pavements around his Perthshire neighbourhood for the past couple of years.Charlie told the Perthshire Advertiser: "I go up and down my street and round the corner."On occasion he has been known to go round the entire village making sure at least one pavement on one side of the road is clear.And his generous actions have not gone unnoticed.Charlie was left grinning from ear to ear when Conservative councillor Angus Forbes presented him with the equipment needed to become an official council volunteer on Christmas Eve.

Cllr Forbes told the Perthshire Advertiser: "Charlie is an inspirational young man who has spent a lot of time helping other people by gritting the pavements around Inchture.

It seemed only right that we give him the proper tools to do the job safely. I was delighted to present him with a gritter, snow shovel, safety jacket, torch and boot grippers to help him with his gritting. " As council budgets are cut every year, more and more the council relies on people like Charlie to help out by doing a little bit now and then.

We all need to work together to help each other and Charlie is the absolute epitome of that." Mum Jodie said: "He checks the weather forecast all the time and goes out as