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• Regatta alcohol ban call

  September 17 2012

  An outspoken businessman is calling for a regatta open-air booze ban after he claimed the huge celebrations left Dartmouth looking like a war scene from the film Gladiator.
  Johnny Chick warned that Royal Avenue Gardens was turned into a mini rubbish dump as the regatta celebrations came to a violent end.
  Police reported a series of fights and assaults as the event drew to a close on the Saturday night.
  The town’s business forum is planning to question regatta organisers over possible changes in future.