Brighton Club Bars Crawley Clubbers

[Cosmonaut]

Clubbers from Crawley have been banned en masse from Brighton nightspot Creation after the club started using ID checks to keep out the neighbouring town's clubbers.

Brighton police told local newspaper the Argus that they'd noticed a surge in violence after Crawley nightspot Brannigans closed for a month, prompting Creation to introduce the unprecedented, though fully legal geographic ban.

"I only have one area ban and that's Crawley, we don't admit people from there," Creation head doorman Martyn Richardson confirmed.

"After we did it, the seafront clubs started telling me they were getting troublemakers from Crawley and we realised it was because we weren't letting them in here any more," he added (the Argus).

Meanwhile in Winchester, cops began randomly drug-testing clubbers with an Ion Track machine last weekend forcing revellers to submit to tests as a compulsory condition of entry into four of the town's pubs.

Doormen were ordered to brush a swab across customers' finger tips as they entered any of the pubs which was then tested instantly in the machine, with people showing positive traces being detained and searched by cops.

"An operation like this is a very successful way of tackling the drugs problem in Winchester city centre and the co-operation of the licensees and the public is invaluable to us," Sergeant Karen Fisher told ThisIsHampshire.co,uk.

The ultra-sensitive machines were previously road-tested by politicians in Wales last year, with several testing positive, including Social Justice Minister Edwina Hart and Conservative William Graham from the Welsh Assembly.

Ironically, Mr Graham, an ardent anti-drug campaigner, had arranged the tests with police to demonstrate the machine's effectiveness, and told the BBC he was flummoxed by the results.

"I can't think where I could have got it from", he said (cops later suggested he could have picked up traces from a contaminated door handle or bank note).

I believe the same system should be practiced here as well on everyone who enters into a rave

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