Environment minister Peter Sirett talks to pupils from St Martin’s at yesterday’s Specsavers Primary Schools Congress. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0794338)

DIRTY beaches, abandoned cars and graffiti are the top issues children want the States to sort out.

More than 100 pupils outlined their priorities yesterday at the Specsavers Primary Schools’ Congress.

School council representatives from all over the island had the chance to relay their ideas to deputies as to which issues they would like to see tackled.

These included raising the age to ride a motorbike, increasing the price of alcohol and clamping down on abandoned cars.

Ideas that centred on the environment were also a top priority.

At the end of the morning, every child voted on a solution to an issue raised.

St Martin’s Primary School council chairman Lily Russell, 10, said the day had gone well.

‘It’s been really good – the congress is a really good idea.

‘Our topic was to reduce, reuse and recycle. What I would most like to see done is fines for dropping rubbish on beaches,’ she said.

Amherst Primary council wanted to see smoking banned on beaches.