You know it’s the summer silly season when the annual surge in ‘loony council’ stories hit the tabloids.
And so it was when desperate papers were filled with column inches about so-called research into how ‘busybody’ councils are misusing Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs) designed to target anti-social behaviour.
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