Owners have collected hundreds of signatures against controversial plans to ban dogs from two popular exercise areas.

And they are planning a mass dog walk to present their petition to Grove Parish Council on Tuesday.

Dog control orders could be brought in at the Cane Lane recreation ground and at Wasbrough Field following complaints about dog mess on sports pitches. Dogs would have to be kept on a lead and only walked around the field edges.

Vicki Ruston, of Boucher Close, said: "No one wants to see dog mess and we understand the concerns of the sports clubs, but we find empty bottles, cans, bandages and condoms on the fields."

And Dean Bateson, 25, of Albermarle Drive, said: "We have a right to walk our dogs here. The council needs to police the laws we have."

Parish council chairman Frank Parnell said it hoped to reach a compromise.