Antisocial Behaviour in Countesthorpe

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There's been a massive rise in the number of reports of anti-social behaviour in a part of rural Leicestershire. Together with the Police, Blaby District Council says that between 2014 and 2015, it received 110 complaints in Countesthorpe. But in the last 7 months alone, there's already been 133 cases in the village! So the Council is now asking members of the public for their views on plans to introduce new powers which would restrict the movements of young people in certain areas. For example, the Public Spaces Protection Order would mean that 10-17 year olds wouldn't be allowed to gather in groups of 4 or more. And, as BBC Radio Leicester's Manish Verma reports, there are plenty of people who welcome the idea.