A FAMOUS face on the streets of Hindley has helped his owners win £50.

Monty the dog’s owner have become the country’s first winner of a raffle which rewards members of the public who bin their dog muck.

Monty, an eight-year-old wire haired fox terrier, is a familiar sight to residents in the Hindley area because he always carries an umbrella in his mouth on his daily walk.

In late December when his owner, retired joiner David Unsworth, aged 71, was picking up Monty’s droppings that luck shined on the pair.

David said: “I was just picking up what Monty had done when someone came up to me and said ‘I see you have picked up his droppings, have a raffle ticket.’ “The next day the phone rang to say I had won.”

David was the first winner of a new raffle scheme run by Wigan Council and its partner 3GS to help keep the borough’s streets clean.

From December 3GS enforcement officers have handed out raffle tickets to members of the public who they saw clean up their dog muck or put litter in public bins.

The new scheme, the first of its kind in the UK, saw 100 raffle tickets handed out with the winner getting £50 in vouchers to spend in Wigan’s Grand Arcade shopping centre.

David and his wife Brenda found out they had won the £50 on their 50th wedding anniversary.

David said: “It was a nice surprise. I’ve always said ‘where there’s muck, there’s money.”

The couple haven’t yet decided what they are going to spend their money on – but a new umbrella for Monty has not been ruled out.