Sandy 14-hour raves a ‘pain in backside’
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Police and a council have come under fire from residents who endured a sleepless night for not doing enough to halt a 14-hour illegal rave.
Up to 300 revellers staged the all night party at the disused Morgan Matroc factory in Sandy from midnight on Saturday to 4.30pm the following afternoon last weekend.
It was the second rave in five weeks thrown in the building.
Carole Harding of nearby Friars Walk said police and Mid Beds District Council appeared powerless to stop it and wants to see the site secured.
She said: “Both the police and the council seem incapable of doing anything once the event has started. A lot of residents were disturbed by 14 hours of continuous noise.
“It was the second time in five weeks it has happened. It is a pain in the backside and is starting to brainwash residents. After 14 hours of pumping music it gets hard to think straight.”
Police confirmed they had received numerous angry complaints about the noise but said as the rave was in full swing by the time they were called, it was too dangerous to try to stop it.
They alerted Mid Beds but environmental health officers did not attend.
A spokesman for Mid Beds District Council said: “We will try and identify the owners of the site and make them take action to make sure the site is secured, to prevent further illegal trespass.”
See the March 24 edition of the Biggleswade Chronicle for the full version of this story.
24 March 2006
