Our local council recently put some investment into a children's play park, extending it and adding a variety of new apparatus including a zip wire. It has been a successful development that has encouraged a much greater use of the facilities.
In fact, it's become popular with a wide range of ages from the very young to older teens that hang out in the evenings. Yet not everyone has seen the presence of young people in the park as a positive thing. Someone wrote to our local paper to complain: "From around 6pm each day, groups of youths aged between 16 and 20 muck about, deliberately attempting to break the equipment. This is the sole object of their play... ".
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