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Our seaside village is being ruined by partygoers – they dump rubbish everywhere & steal from us… we want them gone

RESIDENTS of a seaside village claim it is being ruined by rowdy partygoers who dump rubbish in the street and steal from them.

Locals of Polzeath, , have slammed "anti-social" schoolchildren and revellers for littering and vandalising their picturesque beach.

Locals of Polzeath, Cornwall, have slammed "anti-social" schoolchildren and revellers for ruining their town
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Locals of Polzeath, Cornwall, have slammed "anti-social" schoolchildren and revellers for ruining their townCredit: Alamy
They claim that the yobs dump litter all over their beaches
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They claim that the yobs dump litter all over their beachesCredit: Polzeath Together

Andy Stewart, a former officer who now patrols the beaches, told that posh parents living in nearby villages "haven't got a clue" what their kids are getting up to.

He said: "They think they are sending their kids to this utopia, where they are sitting on the beach, playing guitar and swapping phone numbers.

"They don't realise there is excessive drinking, cocaine, nitrous oxide, underage sex and big fires."

Andy claimed that he even convinced a famous TV name not to let their child attend the beachfront parties by showing him snaps of used condoms and underwear scattered across the sand.

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Floodlights and CCTV have now been installed to try and discourage the bad behaviour.

But Kathy Alford and Vickie Toland, who volunteer for the local conservation group, still fear for the next couple of weeks, as the summer season attracts crowds of young tourists.

Vickie said: "In the last few years, it's been big bonfires and lots of bottles just chucked.

"I couldn't believe it when I first saw the bin man with a wheelbarrow and a dustpan and brush clearing up the road in the morning."

Meanwhile, a student working at a seaside cafe said that the issue was a "tiny group" who ruin things for everyone else and not young people at large.

It comes after locals of another town were appalled by an unusual council-backed addition to a new housing development.

A local student said it was down to a 'tiny group' ruining things for everyone else
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A local student said it was down to a 'tiny group' ruining things for everyone elseCredit: Polzeath Together
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