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with 'SWINDON NEWS'
8:10am Wednesday 2nd May 2007
ANYONE who looks under the age of 16 can be taken home in a police car if they are out after 9pm in a troubled part of Swindon.
The new curfew is part of a long-awaited dispersal order that has been brought in for the Welcombe Avenue area of Park North.
Residents have welcomed the police action and say yobs have made their lives hell in recent months.
The police say the dispersal order will be strongly enforced and they are determined to make life better for the under-siege locals.
PC Billy O'Sullivan, Parks and Walcot community beat manager, said: "It's a reaction to the high levels of abuse and intimidation deterring members of the public from using Welcombe Stores and from visiting the area."
The order means police can move in on any groups of two or more people believed to be causing or likely to cause trouble.
"There's a definite intention from me to have this policed robustly," PC O'Sullivan said.
"Offenders will be arrested and dealt with in as strong as possible terms that the law allows.
"The residents have been subjected to this anti-social behaviour and they deserve a break from it."
Officers also have the added power of being able to take home anyone reasonably believed to be under the age of 16' who is in the area between 9pm and 6am without a parent or responsible adult.
PC O'Sullivan said: "It's a very useful tool because a good proportion of the individuals are under the age of 16 and this is a powerful piece of legislation that allows us to remove them and take them home to their parents, who will then be made very aware of the circumstances in which their child has been returned home."
The order, which has been set up by the Neighbourhood Policing Team and the council, will run for six months until October 31.
Alicja Bolton, 63, of Welcombe Avenue, said: "We have been waiting for the dispersal order for a long, long time.
"We welcome it because we have had nothing but trouble and vandalism.
"We get between 30 and 40 kids hanging around and it's horrendous. They give you abuse and there's graffiti everywhere.
"It's just horrendous night after night."
Reg Patterson, 69, of Welcombe Avenue, said: "We are pleased it's in force. We watched them putting up the notices, but of course the proof of the pudding is in the eating so we will have to wait and see what develops.
"I am glad to see something is being done at last though."
tracey, parks says...
8:50am Wed 2 May 07
Caroline, says...
9:01am Wed 2 May 07
mush1234, swindon says...
9:01am Wed 2 May 07
mush1234, swindon says...
9:04am Wed 2 May 07
mush1234 fan, says...
9:08am Wed 2 May 07
Astonished, Swindon says...
9:12am Wed 2 May 07
Caroline wrote:Shut up Caroline, you are an imbecile.
This is a real shame. Kids should be allowed to play out for as long as they want and do what they like.
They're all good kids really, they just need a bit of love.
mush1234, swindon says...
9:12am Wed 2 May 07
Voice of Reason, Park South says...
9:13am Wed 2 May 07
tracey wrote:Yeak, like cavvy is going to sell anything expensive.
Its all very well moving on the kids, what about all the drunks sat around with their cheap bottles and cans in the cavendish area too
mush1234, swindon says...
9:18am Wed 2 May 07
mush1234, swindon says...
9:21am Wed 2 May 07
mush1234, swindon says...
9:22am Wed 2 May 07
mush1234, swindon says...
9:23am Wed 2 May 07
Voice of Reason, Park South says...
9:35am Wed 2 May 07
mush1234 wrote:It was funny the first two times but not the third. And no, I don't call cavvy home. It has nothing to offer since the c0ck robin was closed down.
Dont know why i had to say that 3 times but you get the point
mush1234, swindon says...
9:38am Wed 2 May 07
Voice of Reason, Park South says...
9:40am Wed 2 May 07
mush1234, swindon says...
9:44am Wed 2 May 07
Brian Sewell, Haverford West says...
9:45am Wed 2 May 07
barry lithgow, swindon says...
9:45am Wed 2 May 07
Tracey, parks says...
9:49am Wed 2 May 07
Caroline, says...
9:53am Wed 2 May 07
Sword of Damocles, Above your chair says...
9:55am Wed 2 May 07
barry lithgow, swindon says...
9:59am Wed 2 May 07
Voice of Reason, Park South says...
10:06am Wed 2 May 07
mush1234 wrote:Heh-heh-heh!!! If I were the real Voice of Reason, that would have been funny but - alas - I am not. Keep those comments coming in mush1234.
Well for starters you should never of had kids if you carnt look after them,as as you got them now educate them by saying if they are going to glue sniff ,smoke dope and drink cans of red bull, when the old bill arrive leg it and DONT GET CAUGHT.
barry lithgow, swindon says...
10:12am Wed 2 May 07
Brian Sewell, Haverford West says...
10:16am Wed 2 May 07
mush1234, swinodon says...
10:16am Wed 2 May 07
John Donne, Spinning in my grave says...
10:18am Wed 2 May 07
barry lithgow wrote:Don't ever give up your day job, Barry.
after the various posts by mush1234 this morning, i have decided to write a poem with regards to this... born under the dark clouds of dishonesty, the hand of diciet gave us its first born, for its name was mush1234. living within poverty he struck a blow for common sense, for he would be the first son of idiocy & impotency.
barry lithgow, swindon says...
10:20am Wed 2 May 07
AG, says...
10:21am Wed 2 May 07
anon, says...
10:22am Wed 2 May 07
barry lithgow, swindon says...
10:23am Wed 2 May 07
barry lithgow, swindon says...
10:28am Wed 2 May 07
mush1234, swindon says...
10:30am Wed 2 May 07
jamie, swindon says...
11:01am Wed 2 May 07
brewers, swindon says...
11:03am Wed 2 May 07
jamie wrote:yeah
what about hazlmere close park south fightin bullin fires
Madwillivee, Park South says...
11:05am Wed 2 May 07
Brian Sewell, says...
11:07am Wed 2 May 07
The Real Bev, says...
11:14am Wed 2 May 07
lil, says...
11:17am Wed 2 May 07
The Other Real Bev, says...
11:20am Wed 2 May 07
The Curious Orange, says...
11:20am Wed 2 May 07
Chris, says...
11:21am Wed 2 May 07
mush1234, swindon says...
11:30am Wed 2 May 07
Voice of Reason, The Real one not the one from before says...
11:40am Wed 2 May 07
The Real Bev, says...
11:43am Wed 2 May 07
Brian Sewell, says...
11:44am Wed 2 May 07
Voice of Reason, Park South says...
11:52am Wed 2 May 07
Tracy Smith, Park North says...
11:53am Wed 2 May 07
mush1234, swindon says...
11:56am Wed 2 May 07
Voice of Reason, Fed Up Of Copycats says...
12:01pm Wed 2 May 07
Donny, Luxembourg says...
12:02pm Wed 2 May 07
Voice of Reason, Park South Central says...
12:05pm Wed 2 May 07
The Real Bev, says...
12:07pm Wed 2 May 07
Voice of Reason wrote:You lot obviously need a curfew.....now now children!!!
Also you already said to mush earlier on this site that it would be funny to wind you up if you were the real voice of reason which obviously your not as you contradicted yourself not a clever move. And mush my home is not council I own it paid for in cash outright I am captain mega bucks.
Voice of Reason, Park South says...
12:11pm Wed 2 May 07
Voice of Reason wrote:I never wrote this.
I also live in Park South you tw4t Cranmore Avenue just down from Rushton Road near the bus stop I have actually registered this name on this website so how can you have been using it for ages, oh let me guess cos you did not register it cos you make up names as you go along so you can pretend to be who you want you sad little man
Sword of Damocles, Above your chair says...
12:12pm Wed 2 May 07
mush1234, swindon says...
12:15pm Wed 2 May 07
mush1234, swindon says...
12:18pm Wed 2 May 07
Hungry, Swindon says...
12:25pm Wed 2 May 07
Voice of Reason wrote:Nor did I but it's a jolly good job it's near to lunch time - I'm utterly ravenous. I've got some sandwiches and a cereal bar to eat, can't wait.
Voice of Reason wrote:I never wrote this.
I also live in Park South you tw4t Cranmore Avenue just down from Rushton Road near the bus stop I have actually registered this name on this website so how can you have been using it for ages, oh let me guess cos you did not register it cos you make up names as you go along so you can pretend to be who you want you sad little man
anon, says...
12:27pm Wed 2 May 07
Hungry, Swindon says...
12:29pm Wed 2 May 07
Madwillivee, Park South says...
12:31pm Wed 2 May 07
Voice of Reason, Park South says...
12:31pm Wed 2 May 07
mush1234 wrote:nice try mush1234 but I wasnt born yesterday
the real voice of reason works in as a bar manager in swindon the real one will know what the bar is called
Voice of Reason, Park South says...
12:32pm Wed 2 May 07
OMG!!!, PN says...
12:36pm Wed 2 May 07
Voice of Reason, Park South says...
12:37pm Wed 2 May 07
The Wonder of Ewe, Ynysybwl says...
12:40pm Wed 2 May 07
Voice of Reason, Park South says...
12:41pm Wed 2 May 07
Voice of Reason wrote:I totally agree but I didn't write that one you muppet. That was somebody else!
mush1234 wrote: Well for starters you should never of had kids if you carnt look after them,as as you got them now educate them by saying if they are going to glue sniff ,smoke dope and drink cans of red bull, when the old bill arrive leg it and DONT GET CAUGHT. Heh-heh-heh!!! If I were the real Voice of Reason, that would have been funny but - alas - I am not. Keep those comments coming in mush1234...See this was the Fakes earlier comment and see he says he is not the real one.
mush1234, swindon says...
12:41pm Wed 2 May 07
Voice of Reason wrote:you are the real one cause i didnt mention gay bar that was the other day so you are the real voice of reason.you muppet
mush1234 I never said the name of the bar I work in you were the one who said I worked in a gay bar
mush1234, swindon says...
12:48pm Wed 2 May 07
I Too Could Be A Councillor, says...
12:49pm Wed 2 May 07
Madwillivee, Park South says...
12:53pm Wed 2 May 07
Voice of Reason, Park South says...
12:55pm Wed 2 May 07
voice of reason, park south says...
1:01pm Wed 2 May 07
mush1234, swindon says...
1:03pm Wed 2 May 07
Jim Morrison, Heaven says...
1:05pm Wed 2 May 07
Baron Samedi, Funky Wroughton says...
1:06pm Wed 2 May 07
Voice of Reason wrote:To live in Funky Wroughton?
Finally mush1234 the penny has dropped. I do like living Park South mate its great nice people nice area what more could anyone want.
Jim Morrison, Still Heaven says...
1:07pm Wed 2 May 07
Madwillivee, Park South says...
10:08am Thu 3 May 07
ko the real one, PARK SOUTH says...
6:14pm Thu 3 May 07
kerrie bisley, pinehurstwest says...
8:39pm Wed 9 May 07
scuby, hull says...
11:16pm Tue 25 Dec 07
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mush1234, says...
8:48am Wed 2 May 07