A north London council spends more than £30,000 a year cleaning up shops, pavements and buildings covered in a dark-red substance called paan – a chewing tobacco popular amongst the South East Asian community.
Paan chewing is rife in parts of Brent – particularly around Wembley – where a blood-red mix of saliva and tobacco can be seen spattered across the area, including on telephone boxes, pavements, and in flower beds.
