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New blitz on Aber boy racers

ABERGAVENNY residents fed up with boy racers are to be invited to join forces with the police and council to clamp down on their nuisance behaviour.

Many people have contacted Cllr Alan Breeze and he has called a public meeting next week which will be attended by the AM for Monmouth, David Davies, together with Gwent Police and Monmouthshire highways and legal services officials.

Cllr Breeze said: "I have been contacted by many residents about the long-standing problem of boy racers, various solutions have been put forward, but the situation seems to have changed very little.

"We have arranged a meeting where they can express concerns to the police and council about this anti social behaviour which is causing them so much misery.

"Hopefully a partnership approach might find some way to solve this irresponsible use of our car parks and dangerous driving through our streets."

Cllr Breeze said he had been in touch with residents in the Holywell Road, Fosterville Crescent and Monmouth Road areas about the meeting, because they were the ones who had complained to him, but the meeting was open to any Abergavenny residents who shared their concerns, and he urged them to attend.

Inspector Allyn Richards of Abergavenny Police said: "We would stress that to solve a problem like this we need to adopt a partnership approach because it is not just a problem of enforcement."

He said Operation Elite, conducted by Sergeant Huw Jones and his officers, saw three cars seized from boy racers, and two were convicted of driving without due care and attention and ordered to take extended driving tests.

More than 50 were issued with notices regarding misuse of their vehicles and well in excess of 100 had fixed penalty notices for offences like using mobile phones while driving, and not wearing seat belts. Several vehicles were also taken off the road because of defects.

The meeting will be held on Thursday September 16 in the Council Chamber at Abergavenny Town Hall at