(18 Feb 2020, 12:13 am)Rapidsnap wrote Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the surroundings in general, it's just the "little darlings" that infest the area.

Lived in Hetton quite happily for a while, years back, but the atmosphere in the two town centres has definitely changed for the worse, since then. I hate the almost constant pub overspill in Houghton. And last time we caught the 71, there, a fire engine pulled up because there was a bin fire in the park behind the bus stop. A couple of weeks previously, all the windows were smashed in that same bus stop (though fram is no stranger to vandalised bus shelters, either and Thornley had most of its shelters replaced with ones with metal mesh, when it had similar ASB issues, years back. Arriva did refuse to run there in the evenings, for a while.)