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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Dave Hill

Elections in Barking and Dagenham: booze news

A local blogger asks:

Who'd have thought that the BNP - the defenders of law and order and champions of safer streets in our borough - would set themselves against the kind of measure that would reduce drink related anti-social behaviour on our streets? But that's exactly what they did at the council assembly on Wednesday evening - or rather, that's what BNP group leader Bob Bailey did - in the absence of nearly all his colleagues - who clearly had something better to do on the night.

Now read on.

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