It is a outrage that the council does not take the same steps to bar from the beach the dregs of humanity which infest the beach from midday onwards, on a daily routine.

Not only do these sub-class creatures defecate, yes defecate, in the area between the north pier and the lifeboat station, and the Dove lab to the caves, they urinate wherever happens to be convenient in full public view. This is despite free public toilets being available.

Children are exposed to drunken, urinating vomiting adults, men and women, and teenage children in a public place – NTC, Northumbria Police, is that not two specific offences at the same time? Maybe they wouldn't need toilets so regularly if they weren't so mortal drunk.

The filth which is left behind on the beach and surrounding area has to be seen to believed at times - lager cans, and broken glass abounds.

Can you imagine the injury that will result from bairns building sandcastles with broken bottles?

Just as disturbingly, though is another sign of the departure of civilised culture, with feral youth openly snorting lines of cocaine between the lifeboat station and the pier, and also in the balcony area of the Watchhouse.

The fear factor of drunken feral youth destroyed a happy afternoon's visit by Rockcliffe School, on Thursday afternoon, May 8, to the point where they packed up and went home. I don't blame them in the slightest.

Couple this to the violent conduct, drunk and disorderly conduct, riots and much more witnessed on the afternoon of Saturday, May 10, and it's little wonder that few decent families frequent the beach on a repeat basis. Once bitten, twice shy.

The language and abuse, even in their version of normal speech, that emanates from such vermin is such that in high summer, we depart sunny Cullercoats and go to spend our tourist pound in South Shields, as do several other families I know of.

Sadly, Heather McDougall (News Guardian May 7) is seriously deluded if she thinks that it is just one dozen misguided youths creating havoc, numbers on the Saturday in question ran into hundreds, or that they just want to be spoken to, or given bottles of pop. Suppose they would accept a bottle of vodka, though?

I think the council would do better to ban certain sections of the population from the beach, not dogs, who only create one sort of mess – and generally their owners pick it up.

ANNA TOOKE


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