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Video: See how city
council officers kept an eye on revellers

by Alex Claridge

Concerns have been raised after 600
students descended on Canterbury city centre on Tuesday
night for an organised pub crawl called Carnage.

City council monitors, who were out
with the revellers and their stewards, have made a string of
criticisms.

These include too much noise and
poor stewarding.

Christ Church University
students were led around four bars before ending up at the
Chill nightclub in St George’s Place.

Wearing distinctive white and
orange T-shirts, the freshers had each paid £10 for the
evening.

A Carnage party in Cardiff had last
week attracted publicity after students were photographed urinating
on a war memorial and collapsed in the gutter from drunkenness.

Roger Vick, the city council’s commercial health
manager, took the opportunity to trial new head-cameras on the
evening to keep an eye on revellers (pictured right).

Mr Vick believes the evening
in Canterbury raised some concerns.

He said: “We will be having a
serious talk with the organisers because there were things that we
are not happy about.

“We don’t feel it was stewarded
properly as the stewards seemed to be standing about in groups and
not sending people down the route we had arranged for them.

“Compared to other events like
this, including the one here last week, there was too much
noise.

“The state of the subway at St
George’s was also poor and had quite clearly been used as a
urinal.

“And while we can’t definitely say
it was the Carnage lot, there were few other people out.”

The revellers were led around the city by six members of
Carnage staff and 32 stewards.

They went to The Foundry in
Whitehorse Lane, The Beer Cart Arms in Beer Cart Lane, The Loft and
Alberry’s in St Margaret’s Street, and then finished at Chill.

Among the revellers was Gary
Mathews, 19, who said: “We’re just out to have a good time.

“This is a good way of getting to
know each other and getting to know the city.”

Canterbury police say they are
unaware of any issues arising from the evening.

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full story, pick up a copy of this week's Kentish
Gazette.