Brighton Club Bars Crawley Clubbers

Clubbers from Crawley have been banned en masse from Brighton nightspot Creation
after the club started using ID checks to keep out the neighbouring town's clubbers.


Brighton police told local newspaper the Argus that they'd noticed a surge in
violence after Crawley nightspot Brannigans closed for a month, prompting Creation
to introduce the unprecedented, though fully legal geographic ban.

"I only have one area ban and that's Crawley, we don't admit people from there,"
Creation head doorman Martyn Richardson confirmed.

"After we did it, the seafront clubs started telling me they were getting
troublemakers from Crawley and we realised it was because we weren't letting them in
here any more," he added (the Argus).

Meanwhile in Winchester, cops began randomly drug-testing clubbers with an Ion Track
machine last weekend forcing revellers to submit to tests as a compulsory condition
of entry into four of the town's pubs.

Doormen were ordered to brush a swab across customers' finger tips as they entered
any of the pubs which was then tested instantly in the machine, with people showing
positive traces being detained and searched by cops.

"An operation like this is a very successful way of tackling the drugs problem in
Winchester city centre and the co-operation of the licensees and the public is
invaluable to us," Sergeant Karen Fisher told ThisIsHampshire.co,uk.

The ultra-sensitive machines were previously road-tested by politicians in Wales
last year, with several testing positive, including Social Justice Minister Edwina
Hart and Conservative William Graham from the Welsh Assembly.

Ironically, Mr Graham, an ardent anti-drug campaigner, had arranged the tests with
police to demonstrate the machine's effectiveness, and told the BBC he was flummoxed
by the results.

"I can't think where I could have got it from", he said (cops later suggested he
could have picked up traces from a contaminated door handle or bank note).

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lifetime. 42% of female homicide victims (compared with 4% of male victims) were
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