POLICE say that a man who sustained a serious arm injury will be questioned about an incident in which two windows in Ludlow town centre were smashed.

The windows at a pub and a shop in Corve Street were broken leaving glass all over the road at around midnight on Saturday (June 27).

After the police had been called a specialist team of street cleaners were called in to remove the glass.

Jennifer Leyton-Purrier, who owns the New Image Hair Salon in Corve Street, says she became aware of the incident after hearing the sound of broken glass just before midnight.

“There was a terrible noise and it seems that there was glass all over the road,” she said.

“When the police came it seemed that they drove over some of the glass. In the early hours street cleaners, who told me that they had been sent from Craven Arms, arrived to clear up the mess.

“Ludlow is not the town that it used to be and bad behaviour on a Saturday night just appears to have become accepted.

“We had our window cracked earlier in the year and it is going to cost £2,700 to repair. The time has come to consider closing the pubs and just leaving the restaurants open.”

She said some people had come to dread Saturday evenings in Ludlow.

Andy Boddington, who represents Ludlow on Shropshire Council, said there was a problem of anti-social behaviour among a small minority of people but he feels that the problem needs to be kept in perspective.

“There have been difficulties with vandalism in Ludlow town centre for a time and I do not think that it is getting any worse,” he said.

Ludlow Town Council has also had concerns about bad behaviour that in the past.

This has included noise, drunkenness and even people urinating in the street and through letter boxes.