BRIGHTON and Hove Council is taking action against buskers, washer boys and drummers when they cause a nuisance.

It wants to adopt Home Office model bylaws which should make prosecution easier when complaints are made. Buskers and drummers have made the lives of some town centre people a misery in the past through their insistent noise. The washer boys have plagued motorists waiting in Brighton's many traffic jams. But no new bylaws have been introduced to stop another problem in Brighton which causes more complaints than any of the other nuisances. Brighton is full of beggars and a bylaw which enabled action to be taken against them when they prove to be pests would also be welcome. No one is suggesting any action against those who sell The Big Issue but most Brighton people would see persistent beggars as more of a nuisance than bad buskers.

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