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Stirling seeks policing on estate ball games.
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Ballymena Times (Ballymena, Northern Ireland)
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July 1, 2008
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A Ballymena borough councillor has called on police to blow the whistle on children playing ball in a built-up area.
Ulster Unionist Coalition Party (UUCP) member, Robin Stirling made his appeal at last Thursday night's meeting in public of the District Policing Partnership (DPP) in The Braid Civic Centre.
Although he declined to specify the housing area concerned, he told the forum that residents living there were being driven to distraction by footballs being kicked with annoying regularity into drives and gardens, often being retrieved without the permission of the owners of the property.
He said the street games also often obstructed vehicular traffic and the ...