Feral youths destroying town

12:40pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008

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I AM so full of anger over the sight that confronted me whilst walking back to my car one evening last week after attending a concert at Kidderminster Town Hall.

I feel I must have my say in the vain hope that maybe something is done about the state of our streets by day and most of all by night, and the carnage that the low life of society leave behind them.

I regularly walk past the area around the sight of Kidderminster College and library as I work in the town.

A lot of effort has been put into making this area pleasant and modern so that shoppers and everyone else have a nice area in which to stroll. I am continuously disturbed over youths ‘hanging about’ or sitting in the entrance just opposite the library, smoking, drinking or doing anything else that may take their fancy, most of the time offensive to the normal everyday person.

A group of youths had gathered in this area at about 6.30pm armed with cans and bottles of alcohol, obviously in for some sort of session. Unfortunately, at 10.15pm many people leaving the concert were faced with the aftermath of this session.

There was smashed glass, tin cans and paper littering the street, but obviously no sign of the people responsible for causing the mess. What annoys me is that, who is left to clean up this mess? The local council workers I guess – what a soul-destroying job?

Can’t something be done about moving these people on. A policeman, or community support officer on patrol wouldn’t be too much to ask surely.

Also, can’t Kidderminster be made an alcohol-free zone, a system which seems to have been implemented in many other towns across the country.

There seems little point in trying to modernise Kidderminster town centre with big plans for the future, when it is going to be destroyed by ‘feral’ youths.

MRS G MORRIS Kidderminster