Rough Sleepers Could Face £100 Fines

Rough sleepers who refuse to move from doorways could be fined £100 in a proposed crackdown on anti-social behaviour in Manchester city centre. The city's council said plans for a new Public Space Protection Order unveiled earlier would make the city safer. However, opposition leader John Leech described the proposal as "social cleansing" and vowed to oppose it. The council said it would only issue fines where there was a "wilful refusal to co-operate". It said the order would not target rough sleepers or any "particular groups of people", but rather anyone who displayed anti-social behaviour including "aggressive begging" and drinking alcohol in public. Read more on the BBC website.

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