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Topic ID 718
09/06/2005 by Ewoowar
Is this the way to tackle the problem?
When I saw the headline for this I thought it would be a distant part of the country, not just up the A10.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/4076348.stm
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Reply ID 7444
09/06/2005 by carlos fandango
I wonder...just wonder...if national service is the way to go again. Lived in a country where all men do 1 year (Germany) and it felt far less threatening walking about than various parts of England do. The army teaches discipline and respect right?
Reply ID 7451
09/06/2005 by nora batty
Royston does have Bassingbourn Barracks on it's doorstep, so deploying the RMP is probably somewhat easier for them than for other towns.
Reply ID 7452
09/06/2005 by smileyoriley
but at the same time somewhere like Colchester also has this and it's made the area worse
Reply ID 7453
09/06/2005 by nora batty
I lived in Hereford alongside the SAS during my college years and the SAS squaddies were often the cause of trouble in the town. I note the RMP only became involved in this case after their own were in trouble.
Reply ID 7457
09/06/2005 by skanky
When I lived in Royston the squaddies at Bassingbourn were banned from all but one pub (at the Bassingbourn end of town, by the station) because of the troubles that resulted from them drinking in the town centre prior to that. It may still be the case, or it may be why the RMP are being brought in.
Reply ID 7466
10/06/2005 by carlos fandango
I withdraw the point i made earlier.
Reply ID 7475
10/06/2005 by Gini
I know the old post office pub still serves the squaddies, and is proberbly the pub with the most trouble in the town. so perhaps by the mod patroling the area the sqaddies might behave better[:p]
Gini
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