After our first front page yesterday, Big Brother Watch is quoted in two newspapers today on the news that Nottingham is set to ban street drinking across the city - a topic we blogged about yesterday afternoon.
Daily Mail - Ban on drinking in the street: Entire towns and cities to become public alcohol-free zones
...However, there are concerns that some councils may be too heavy-handed in the way they introduce new byelaws, possibly putting an end to picnics in the park. Dylan Sharpe of Big Brother Watch said: 'This is yet another piece of legislation with the potential to create criminals out of law-abiding people...'
Daily Telegraph - New power could mean blanket bans on drinking in public
...Dylan Sharpe, from the campaign group Big Brother Watch, added: "This move smacks of a local authority lazily choosing to blanket ban something that many decent people innocently enjoy, rather than leave the initiative with police officers to judge on a case-by-case basis. This is yet another piece of legislation with the potential to create criminals out of law abiding people...”
UPDATE - Alex Deane interviewed by Graham Torrington for BBC Radio Bristol
UPDATE II - Big Brother Watch in first piece of foreign news coverage!
Corriere della Sera - Nottingham prima città inglese alcol free
...Unica (almeno per ora) voce fuori dal coro è quella di Dylan Sharpe di “Big Brother Watch”, organizzazione che combatte le ingiustizie e difende le libertà civili, che giudica la mossa di Nottingham...
To see all our media coverage so far please click here.
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