Article: Battle over Balaclavas; Is it a harmless woolly hat, or a more sinister instrument of terror?

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Daily Mail (London)
Article date:
March 27, 2002
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Byline: CHRIS MARKS

IN this terrorist- conscious age, a policeman needs to be constantly on the alert for anyone of sinister appearance.

But when a constable took a 14-year-old schoolboy to task for wearing a Balaclava helmet, he stirred up a hornet's nest of controversy.

Now the north- east town of Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, is puzzling over the curious question posed by the new Grampian Police attitude to headgear - when is a Balaclava a harmless woolly hat, and when does it become a sinister instrument of terror?

'If an elderly woman was coming out of the post office with her pension book in hand and saw someone wearing a ...

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