Smoking in Public Places

Everybody knows about the smoking ban - no smoking in public places. Whilst walking through the Maltings yesterday I saw three young men light up outside Argos, and walk down towards David Christopher. There are three clear signs explaining this rule but it seems nobody takes any notice of them.

After this I walked up to the Crofts, and there in front of me were about eight to ten youths sheltering from the rain in the crofts toilet porch way. At least half of them were smoking.

The Community Support Officers operate in Ross to stop anti social behaviour - to prevent things like this happening, It disgusts me that the Councils say, "We are injecting money into the police force to stop ASB". In my opinion I feel they have enough money, they have enough equipment, and enough officers. They only need encourage them to get out in town all day, every day…

Ricky Barlow
Chair of HYC and RYF