PETERBOROUGH NEVER VISIT ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON!

It seemed an ideal answer to catching up on coverage at Peterborough bus station, get finished at Delaine running day then head up to Peterborough. Wrong, Peterborough on a Saturday with the usual drunks , smack heads, ne'er-do-wells and flotsam and jetsam plus feral gangs of young males made a very toxic mix. The shops are still closing, M&S went last week following all the top brands who evacuated this hell hole. No disabled  toilets in either the shopping centre or bus station finding any toilets was a lengthy process. My suggest to Peterborough is to disband its police force with all their vans and car, close it all down and see if it made any difference. My guess would but council tax payers would get a huge reduction in charges and there would be no change in crime as the current regime uses riding around in their vehicles nice and warm and safe as a strategy.

Boots on the ground would be impossible as they are scared of the hooligans and thugs. Mandy got attacked by manic drunks who smashed bottles on her car and then a bunch of young males possibly football related. ( all the disabled parking spots are in seedy back streets) I had several encounters by the bus station, then a young kid came out in some sort of rambo uniform, he had Westcliffe on the back, I kept my cools ( for a change) and told him to keep walking and go back to his nice warm office and have a cup of tea.  He took my advise thank goodness, the thugs would have made mincemeat of him and I would have been annoyed at least.

Despite all this and I do implore enthusiasts not to visit the bus station, I did get my footage and stills although the foul weather which has decimated our spring played havoc with photography.