I am disappointed to hear the story of one Dukinfield resident who had her night ruined by thoughtless neighbours last Thursday (5^th June) who considered it reasonable to have a garden party into the early hours of the morning.

As this construed nothing short of anti social behaviour, she contacted the Environmental Health Department’s out of hours service in the hope of getting the problem sorted, and finally some sleep.

But, they would only take a message (the EHP’s were in bed, bless) and said that they would look into it in the morning.

So, onto the police,

“This is a civil matter, not criminal, there’s nothing we can do.”

There we have it; in this day and age, a Police Service with powers taken away, and an Environmental Health Department who didn’t want their sleep disturbing.

The residents of 3 streets in Dukinfield, however lost their sleep at the hands of a minority group of people who have been allowed to get away with their anti-social antics.