Not content with having a town half full of empty shops, now they're trying to drive away the tourists.

Clearly, with reports and film (Herald, July 3) of the incident involving town centre wardens threatening picture takers seen worldwide on the internet, those who issued the instructions to stop people taking photographs need to be removed swiftly before they do any more harm.

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Taken on its own, this may seem a trivial incident, but bit by bit our civil liberties are being eroded, and before we know it, our right to walk or shop where we want to will be questioned.

Already, just along the coast in a Portsmouth shopping centre, "wardens" have access to equipment that track where shoppers go by monitoring signals emitted from their mobile phones.

Plainly, the next step will be gated shopping centres out of bounds to those on low incomes.

John Hughes
Welland Road
Durrington

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