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26
Jun 2020
Police crackdown as vandals pull up trees on the Stray
Vandals have pulled up young trees on the Stray in the evening that police officers cracked down on large groups.
Community police officers tried to disperse some of the larger groups yesterday and reminded them of the social distancing guidelines.
Some rebutted the officers and claimed that they were all in different groups of six or that they were all from the same family.
The levels of litter this morning were not close to the mounds of rubbish left the day before. A new problem has emerged this morning but it is unclear who is responsible.
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Judy d'Arcy Thompson from the Stray Defence Association (SDA) said this morning that the uprooting of trees just adds to the "horrendous destruction."
She added that the SDA has seen reports of mass gatherings, drug-taking and dealing on a huge scale as well as youngsters urinating and defecating.
An SDA committee member Guy Tweedy had planted the trees in memory of several people.
The Stray Ferret has approached both Harrogate Borough Council and North Yorkshire Police for a comment but did not receive a response by the time of publication.
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