A councillor took a hedge trimmer down to a public footpath that had become "impassable" because of overgrown nettles to clear the area himself. Ben Brown, the Conservative representative for the West Bank ward on Mansfield District Council, initially told the authority about the state of the path as he thought it was their responsibility.
The footpath runs from Pheasant Hill to Dunsil Road, behind the Queen Elizabeth's Academy. Councillor Brown says he was told by the council that the pathway was in fact the responsibility of the Queen Elizabeth's Endowed School Trust.
He said: "I did get in touch with Queen Elizabeth's about it and asked if they could get someone down there to sort it. I was first contacted about the issue by a lady that lives on the road that backs on to the footpath.
