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Council gives go-ahead to move to tackle binge drinking

11/04/2008 by admin.

A booze ban aimed at cracking down on drink-fuelled crime has been given the green light.The licensing committee at Havant Borough Council yesterday gave the go-ahead to introduce fixed penalties for people who refuse to hand over alcohol to police if they are drinking in public.  The move comes more than a year after 11 areas were designated booze-free zones, including Havant town centre and the Greywell and Park Parade precincts. There are hopes that the latest idea will dramatically reduce the amount of drink-fuelled crime which puts Havant at the top of the table in the area for this sort of problem. But police have promised they will use the new powers only to stop nuisance behaviour. Inspector Darren Murphy said: ‘If you look at  Havant

Park, where there are very often sporting events, we would not expect to go and seize alcohol if people are acting quite normally. If they are just watching a cricket match then that is fine.’The main thing is that we can confiscate alcohol from people who are causing a problem.’ A ban on booze in public has proved a big success in  Portsmouth,

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Gosport and it is hoped it will bring down the rate of crime in Havant.  The borough is the 14th worst for alcohol-related sexual offences out of 354 local authorities. And it is ranked 45th worst for the number of violent crimes linked to booze.At yesterday’s meeting councillors voted unanimously to bring in the ban. Purbrook councillor David Farrow said: ‘It does seem a little bit Draconian but I think the time has come because our residents all suffer from it.’We have drunkenness, especially from the younger population, and they start out drinking in one area and go on a drinking march.

‘Our residents have to fork out thousands each year when fencing and rubbish bins are taken away and burnt and our play areas desecrated.’

The News 11 April 2008

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Co-op bags plastic change

02/04/2008 by George.

A shop is leading the way in the drive to consign the plastic bag to history.Shoppers at the Southern Co-op store in Emsworth will no longer be able to pick up a free plastic bag at the checkout to stuff full of shopping. Instead they will have to pay five pence for a corn starch bag, which can afterwards be put in the compost heap to decompose.

Emsworth Business Association launched a bid for the town to go plastic-bag-free last year, and the Co-op has taken up the challenge.Ted Merdler, marketing manager at Southern Co-operatives, said: ‘We are delighted to be able to encourage a reduction in the amount of plastic bags used.’

Co opThe Co-op held a competition for youngsters to launch the first day of scrapping its carrier bags yesterday. Local children were asked to create a collage showing how they thought Emsworth would look in the future if people continued to use as many carrier bags as they do at the moment. 

 

 

The News 01 April 2008

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Emsworth Town Centre Tree Trail

27/03/2008 by admin.

Emsworth Town Centre Tree Trail - There are many fine trees throughout Emsworth in recreation grounds, parks, nature conservation areas and other public Trre trail bookletspaces in addition to several tree-lined avenues such as Havant Road Horndean Road and Warblington Road.In the town centre, most of the trees of any size are in private gardens, in Church grounds, along the eastern side of the Town Mill Pond, or in the area adjoining the River Ems and Brook Meadow. The Trail takes you around the central area and identifies some fine trees which can be viewed from public paths, some of which can get very muddy in spring and winter.Many of the trees in the town centre have been pruned, crown reduced, or pollarded mainly for masons of space constraints or the proximity of roads. Tree Preservation Orders (TP0s) have been put on a number of trees throughout Emsworth because of their amenity value. The town centre area south of the A259 is designated as a Conservation Area. Any tree felling or maintenance work within this area requires Local Authority permission.This Trail has 26 different types of trees, with 3 conifers and 23 broadleaved trees. Seventeen of these trees are native to

Great Britain, and in addition a mixed hedgerow of at least 8 additional native trees, including 1 evergreen.The Tree Trail is intended to be of interest to both residents and visitors to create awareness of the value of trees in our street scene. Children particularly are encouraged to use this Tree Trail booklet. The Trail takes about one hour to one-and-half hours to complete.The map on the centre pages shows the route of the Trail starting from  Palmers Road car park, although it can be joined at any point.

Copies of the Booklet (£1.00) \re available from:
Emsworth Museum, Emsworth Bookshop, Bookends, Borland & Bound Estate agents and The Brookfield Hotel.

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Chimney fire at flood-hit Emsworth pub

25/03/2008 by admin.

 Picture: Mark Jones

The Lord Raglan hit by floods ten days ago suffered a chimney fire late morning today (Saturday, March 22). Police closed  Queen Street to traffic Photo: Julian Rollandas two fire appliamces tackled the blaze.

On March 10, open fires in the popular waterside pub were put out by rising seawater as the mill pond overflowed due to a combination of strong winds and spring tides and the ground floor was flooded.

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