Police say there is “no end in sight” to persistent street drinking and booze-fuelled crime on the streets of Leeds’ Armley area.
Officers claim young children are having to walk past drunks fighting and swearing on a weekly basis, because cheap alcohol is too “readily available” there.
It comes as police, alongside Leeds West Labour MP Rachel Reeves, objected to a local shop’s plans to sell alcohol. Ruslanas Zirnikas, who runs Lietuvaite Shop on Branch Road, has asked Leeds City Council for a licence to sell alcohol between 10am and 8pm every day.
