Police defend handling of illegal rave http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/News/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&tBrand=edponline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED30%20Aug%202004%2016%3A50%3A43%3A840
30 August 2004 16:50
The scene of the rave at Weybourne.
Norfolk police defended the way they dealt with an illegal rave on private land which attracted hundreds of young partygoers.
And a senior officer said lessons learnt from the latest in a string of similar outdoor events could feed into future policy for dealing with such incidents.
The rave, held on the idyllic North Norfolk clifftop near Weybourne, led to damage to gates, fields and the cliff edge. From the site, adjacent to the Norfolk Coast Path, it was possible to see ex-Prime Minister John Major's house, approximately a mile away on the hillside.
The irate farmer, whose land was crossed by hundreds of vehicles over the weekend, said the incident had already cost him money in repairs and possible loss of value of his crops, because he has been unable to harvest.
Similar parties have been held in the last few weeks across Norfolk, including at Brancaster beach, Thetford Forest and Sandringham. All have attracted police attention and local anger.
The police have been criticised by landowners for the way they have responded to the events, but Supt Vaughan Mullender said officers had to respond in a “proportionate and pragmatic way”.
He said it was important to ensure public safety and to minimise disruption and damage.
“We see what lessons can be learned and we learn from each of these incidents,” said Supt Mullender.
“We have to take that proportionate approach when dealing with these things and look at all the surrounding circumstances.”
Supt Mullender also said it was conceivable that the lessons learnt could eventually lead to a change of policy.
He said officers reacted “very positively” to the Weybourne rave, which police officially described as a 'party'.
“We are happy with the way it was dealt with,” said Supt Mullender.
Jim Wilson, chairman of Norfolk Police Authority, said the issue was an operational matter and it was not in the remit of the authority to comment.
But he added that such incidents were generally cases of management.
“Wherever possible the police manage these things in a way to try and ameliorate the disturbance.”
Mr Wilson said breaking up a party once scores or hundreds of people were there would take an “awful lot” of manpower.
Up to 800 people were understood to have been at the Weybourne rave at its height. The event started on Saturday morning and was continuing Monday night.
John Perry-Warnes, county council representative on the police authority, said he was very sorry that the landowner had experienced “considerable inconvenience right in the middle of harvesting and cultivating”.
He added that the rave had been “thoroughly well planned” and that the organisers had “in a way outmanoeuvred us”.
Farmer Clive Hay-Smith, who farms 1200 acres, felt better policing of the rave in its very early stages could have prevented it going ahead.
“I do think they should have been jumped on earlier. The first group was fairly small, it wasn't as if all these people turned up at once.”
Mr Hay-Smith said some of the behaviour he had seen defied belief, explaining that he had seen a father in a Mercedes dropping his daughter off at the party and one of the ravers asking him what he was doing there – even though he was on his own land.
He was also angry that he had been unable to harvest a neighbouring field of barley over the weekend, which could now lose quality and therefore value in the coming days.
“We were lined up to cut it on Saturday, but for health and safety reasons we decided we just could not.
“I was worried there could have been someone out of it and asleep in the field and they wouldn't hear the machinery coming.
“To be honest the whole thing is a mess, I can't tell you how angry I have been – and all in a year when the harvest has been hard enough as it is.”
However Mr Hay-Smith was determined to cut the remainder of his crop, about 100 acres, in the coming days.
Over the weekend, bemused walkers were greeted with a rag-tag gathering of tents, cars, vans, music systems, a stack of giant speakers and empty cans strewn on the ground as they made their way along the well-trodden coast path.
Generally pleasant and polite, those attending the rave were mainly young, aged either in their teens or 20s.
There was a certain amount of tidying being done on Monday afternoon, but there were still plenty of cans, bottles, cigarette butts and other rubbish lying across a large area.
The group who appeared to have organised the rave declined to comment, but one raver, who identified himself simply as Will, said: “We're just having fun, there's no houses that close by. What's the problem?
Bank Holiday rave keeps folk awake http://www.mansfieldtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=722&ArticleID=848139
POLICE have confirmed that more than 500 party-goers descended on Mansfield's notorious trouble hotspot The Desert on Saturday for an all-night rave which could be heard for miles.
It is thought the party was organised over the internet, meaning rave fans from across the country converged on the site for the illegal Bank Holiday music bonanza.
Revellers were camped out in converted buses, live-in vans and cars when officers moved in to break up the party on Sunday morning - issuing hardline dispersal orders to clear the trouble-hit site between Clipstone and Rainworth.
It is understood phone lines were jammed on Saturday night by angry residents across the area, who demanded action to stop the noise which went on throughout the night.
Holidaymakers at Center Parcs, many with young children, were also hit by the noise and joined the late-night protests at the rave music.
One Edwinstowe householder told Chad this week: "It was a constant noise all Saturday night and no-one in my house slept at all.
"All you could hear was the same sound: bump, bump, bump until the next morning. It is an environmental issue and people just don't want that level of noise.
"If they were having a concert finishing at midnight, that is not a problem, but to go on like that is a massive nuisance and should be stopped."
Yesterday Insp John Haskew admitted that police had responded to the numerous calls from fed-up residents and went to The Desert on Sunday morning with Newark and Sherwood District Council environmental health officers to issue notices ordering the revellers to leave the scene.
"The issuing of these notices was filmed from above by a police helicopter," he told Chad. "As a result of the notices and positive police action the people left the site without any further problems."
He said when officers arrived at the site, there were around 160 vehicles, but no arrests were made and by Bank Holiday Monday only two broken-down vans were still at the scene.
01 September 2004
any parties in cornwall this weekend i dont suppose anyone knows of anything happening round newquay way this weekend. i'm off to the SAS ball on the friday but hooking up with other friends on saturday and wanted something a little less polished. open to suggestions.
20 people at an indoor party to be illegal! As part of the Anti-Social behaviour bill, the house of Lords last night passed an ammendment to the CJA (remember that?!) which does the following:
* Reduces the legal definition of a "rave" to be 20, not 100 people
* makes indoor raves illegal
* stops organisers moving on to second sites
The legal bumpf at:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200203/ldbills/108/03108.46-49.html#j6666
and the Hansard debate at:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199900/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds03/text/31007-33.htm
Somebody better qualified than me can work out the legal & procedural nicities of this, but it doesnt look good.
reclaim the streets Was anyone involved with 'reclaim the streets' in the mid 90s? I was too young, but i watched some video about it and it looked interesting. Any1 know if its still goin? Also, what do people on here think about the SWP's and George Galloway's 'RESPECT' coalition. Anyone think it has a chance of becoming popular? I think it's a bit rubish, Galloway ain't exactly a man of the people, he said himself that he couldn't live of 3 workers wages. And as for democracy in the group, it's a typical swp affair. Anyways, don't wanna get into a rant so i'll end it there.
Peace, Love and Unity. Riddim Unit.
trefil quarry yo dudes, has ne body heared that there is ment 2b a massive bolder put down to block people from access up there, is this true? and if it is how the fuck r we gonna move it?
Closed
Hard Life – 18/9/04 @ The Park, Manchester Hard Life - Saturday 18/9/04
@ The Park, Grosvenor Street, Manchester
DOLPHIN (www.rebelscum.co.uk)
Ginge (Cypher, Neo)
Rossco (Hard Life)
Alsynthe (Data Sessions UK)
Marv Knight (Recreation)
Martin R (Hard Life)
Focus (Hard Life)
The Iss (Danceology)
8 DJ's in 6 hours with a dirty, hard and seriously banging selection of hardstyle, techno and hard trance.
www.hardlife.org.uk
10pm - 4am. £6
Whos up for it?
Thousands attend illegal rave Thousands attend illegal rave
24/08/2004
http://www.hackersons.com/databass/site/news/local/articleshow.asp?articleID=2011&categoryID=99
Thousands of people have attended an illegal rave on agricultural land in Herefordshire over the Welsh border.
Residents living in the hamlets of Upper Ivington and Hyde Ash claimed around 10,000 people were in the area, although police estimated that 3,000 people have gathered there.
Dyfed-Powys Police said there was an increased movement of traffic over the border in the direction of Leominster.
One person was taken to hospital suffering from the affects of drugs or alcohol.
'No sleep'
Christine Rosearsh's house in Hyde Ash is near to where the rave is taking place.
She told BBC News Online: "It started on Saturday afternoon.
"I was out in my garden and could hear bits of music and vehicles and it gradually increased throughout the night. It was a nightmare.
"I didn't get any sleep."
Mrs Rosearsh said she first phoned the police about 2200 BST on Saturday to complain and made two further calls - the last at 0415 BST - only to be told the police were "monitoring" the situation. She added: "When I looked out my window I was scared because I could see all these people everywhere.
"They were opening the gates to fields to get through and leaving them open. The cows were getting out.
"When I phoned the police, they said they were aware of the rave and that it was unauthorised but could not do anything about it at that time.
"We live right in the middle of the countryside and the lanes around my house are very narrow and they're all being blocked."
Sorry all Just a few lines to say sorry to all the people who got to,or hoped to go to the Demolition Full Moon party on the 28th.
The OB had us with only 2 bassbins out the van. Only 2 of us on site,plus 2 women,2 kids and a dog. Another of the crew was stopped even b4 he got to site. They were determined it wasn't going to happen,even telling a legal party nearby not to let us in if we turned up.
Thanks to the few who made it there,n evryone who tried to-Had all the makings of a real stomper too. We'll be back soon-just watch that space
Down,but not out...
UpRoar – All Systems Go! @ The Emporium, Coalville nr. Leicester Only £15, runs until 7am.
Three Arenas:
Hardcore - Dougal, Gammer etc.
Hardcore Techno - Deathmachine, Scorpio, Producer(!), Ribbz etc.
Old Skool - Slipmat, Vinyl Junkie, Ratty etc.
Loads of MCs throughout the night
www.uproar-events.com
Be there!
Good news from Russia From http://www.bellona.no
All nuclear powered lighthouses to be removed by 2005
Murmansk authorities are removing lighthouses run on radioactive strontium-90 batteries and replacing them with modern solar energy lighthouses, NTV reported.
2004-08-20 15:16
The strontium batteries will be transported with helicopters to the storage facility in Murmansk and then further by railway to the Mayak reprocessing plant in the South Ural. All the strontium lighthouses (about 500) along the coast of the Kola Peninsula are to be removed this year before polar night comes. The radioactive lighthouses could pose a major security threat if falling in the hands of terrorists. Norwegian authorities are financing the new solar lighthouses. The price of each solar panel lighthouse is about $34,200.
FATMOON freeparty Sheffield… Keep the Saturday 28th of August free for some Full Power Psychedelic partying
FatMOON PSYCHEDELIC PLAYGROUNDS
bring you a storming freeparty
For the August Bank Holiday Weekend
fully themed night :Goodies and Baddies (think super heroes cops and robbers king kong godzilla!)
SATURDAY 28TH AUGUST 2004
FROM 10PM TIL MUCH MUCH LATER
@THE HIGHWAY FOX STREET SHEFFIELD
2ROOMS 2 SYSTEMS
FULL POWER PSYTRANCE RIG
in our Fluoro Psychedelic Super Hero Playground
GUEST: GENERAL JOE (RELATIVITY)
TECHNOMEDICS (FATMOON )
DJSV (FATMOON )
JQ (I.O.M)
+ PSYTRANCE ANTIDOTE RIG WILD BEATS CHILL
COSMONAUGHTY (STEREO CHEMISTRY)
BEZ23 (RELATIVITY/KULU)
EV (SMOKESCREEN) TBC
COLIN,
SVEN (FATMOON)
fatmoon@fsmail.net
078143691333
http://www.geocities.com/fatmoonparty
totally disengaged well i feel totally disengaged from the democratic process..
europe and all that
i've lived in loads of countries, have been an 'activist' and stuff.
is it just me, or is voting a load of crap? made me feel shitty anyway
TRIBAL MEDICINE Bournemouth!!!!!!!! Technosis - Antiworld - Section 63 & Full Deaf present
"TRIBAL MEDICINE"
Hypnotic Indoor Festival
Saturday September 4th
9 till 3am
@ The Old Firestation 36 Holdenhurst Road Bournemouth.
www.technosisdjs.co.uk www.antiworld.net
3 rooms of Exotic Dance Music
D.A.V.E. THE DRUMMER
MARK EG
DJ KRISTIAN
JUSTIN SWALES
RIO
G13
E303
FABRY
JASON SWALES
GRAZER
CAI
JIMMY NEUTRON
LITTLE MISS LARGE
CARL SAUNDERS
PABLO
RHYTHM LOGISTICS
BEN EYE
DRUID VS ZEUS
KAI 1
EXTRA SOUNDSYSTEM ADDED
LAZER SHOW
FULL UV DECOR BY FLUROHEAVEN
MAP TO THE VENUE - CLICK THE LINK
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&db=pc&addr1=&client=public&addr2=&advanced=&addr3=&pc=BH88AD&quicksearch=BH88AD&cidr_client=none
£10 ON THE DOOR
8 ADV TICKETS
MIDNIGHT IS LAST ENTRY SO DONT BE LATE
INFO LINE 07979 502712
Dognappers spotted at Glade Festival? According to our local paper a stolen dog was seen at the Glade music festival (this is the only recent musical event in aldermaston I can think of!)
Quote:
Reading
On the scent Aug 24 2004
By Alison Powell
THE hunt for a prized working dog stolen six weeks ago is now being concentrated in Whitley Wood.
The owner is appealing to neighbours living in the area to join the search after several sightings - and has put up a £200 reward.
Ryan Sharp's pedigree paterdale terrier Sam was stolen from a locked kennel on the Wellbarn Estate at Aldworth.
Estate workers saw four men in a gold Subaru estate car snatch Sam and there was a sighting in Englefield later that day, with another at a music festival in Aldermaston some days after that.
The men escaped on foot across a field when police gave chase, after dumping the Subaru in Tadley.
Mr Sharp said: "It must be more than a coincidence that a dog answering Sam's description has been seen in the park off Swallowfield Drive, on the estate and also in the Heroes Walk and Kingsley Close area.
"I'm really asking people who live or work there to keep a look out for Sam and to call if they think they see him.
"It's been six weeks now since Sam was stolen and it is horrible not knowing if he is okay or where he is."
Mr Sharp has visited the area several times just to see if he can find Sam and has put numerous posters up around the area.
He has also put up a £200 reward - with the usual conditions - for anyone who finds Sam.
Mr Sharp said: "He is jet black all over, his tail is docked but longer than normal and he has a tiny mole between his eyes."
* Contact Doglost 01909 730077
* alipowell@readingchronicle.co.uk
Its possible that someone may have bought the dog "innocently"; but IMO this is completely out of order - particularly when so many pets get put down because they cannot be re-homed.
Stealing pet dogs and cats is frankly similar to abducting children; it worries me that people with that sort of mentality are attending events!
If someone really wants a dog there are loads at animal rescue; it makes you think that whoever nicked this one wanted it more as a fashion accessory than a long-term companion :(
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