A cricket team abandoned its Sussex tour after discovering an internet map describing a town as a heroin hotspot.

Hastings tourism chiefs market the town as the site of the 1066 Norman Conquest, boasting its own 660-acre country park and the fact it is home to Europe's largest beach-launched fishing fleet.

But anyone who searches for the town on Google Maps will discover a guide to the local drug dens, entitled: 'Map to show hotspots for discarded injecting paraphenlia' (sic).

Fleckney Village Cricket Club, in Leicestershire, swapped its five-day summer tour to the West Country after seeing the illustrated map.

The user-generated map was created by 'natalieannbutler', who explains: "This map pinpoints where contractors were called out to deal with an incident of used injecting equipment being left in a public place."

Hastings MP Michael Foster said: "I will contact the cricket club and invite them to Hastings and I'm sure they will be impressed when they get here."

Kevin Boorman, head of marketing at Hastings Borough Council, said: "It doesn't help tourism."

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