Aggressive tourists hosting wild campsite parties leave our fields scorched with their BBQs & litter strewn everywhere [Video]

ILLEGAL wild campers are descending on the Lake District for parties before leaving their sites strewn with rubbish, outraging locals.

Groups are venturing into the national park for a night or two of camping, drinking and eating outdoors – but are fly-tipping and scorching the earth with BBQs.

This Cumbria woman has taken it upon herself to clean up after careless campers

Campsites are found with fields left burnt and blackened

The Lake District National Park Authority insists that wild camping is “not technically permitted anywhere in the Lake District” without permission from private landowners.

But those who live nearby have become fed up with the “fly campers'” leaving a mess for them to clear up.

Kate Appleby, 31, from Kendal, Cumbria, says she spends a day a week cleaning up after fly campers.

And she says there’s been a spike in the trend.

She said: “It looks like a festival.

“There was always an element of …