Bit difficult this, Shambles. Most of us try to keep our heads down just in case we start to draw the flak. It's quite useful that we have had two ex-Councillors come to our regular session, though. And our Council runs an annual Shanty Festival.

Usually the Police will only intervene if it's brought to their attention. They don't like dealing with these cases as they feel that the time they spend on them could be better spent. Especially with Home Office forms to fill in about crime rate and detection rate.

If you can't get a meeting with the Council, you could go to your local Councillors' surgery. Perhaps there is a member of your local Council who would be sufficiently interested to attend the session and find out the difference between a session and a gig? If the Council do get shirty then enlist the power of the local press. They hate it when they are publically ridiculed for taking a sledgehammer to a walnut. And have reserve pubs available if they start to serve papers. 'Cos then they've got to start all over again!

Cheers, Les