Was this a youth shelter that had been taken over by rowdy OAPs? Or an old folks' disco packed with octogenarians re-living their wild youths? Nothing so exciting, alas. Merely some mangled syntax and an all too familiar scenario.
Elderly locals in the Northumbrian village of Widdrington Station "have called for the removal of benches in the centre of their square, which has become a meeting point for teenagers," we learn from the Herald. "They say there is noise into the night from the group and gardens have been damaged." The solution arrived at by parish councillors was to move the benches and place them "elsewhere in the village". Good luck with that.
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