Reclaim the streets now! | Libby Purves - Times Online
today, going round literary festivals in provincial towns I consider it my inalienable right to stroll back to the hotel whatever time it is, albeit picking my way through knots of helpless drunkards (as Thora Hird once said: “Theyfive years. I walked about at night to see the sights, dined with relations who live there and walked back to my hotel almost a mile away without feeling in any way nervous or threatened. Why? After all New York was the place to expectPerpetrators need to be punished, and the victims looked after - not the other way round. Prisons are not meant to be 5star hotels with gyms, Internet access, and full use of mobile phones etc., if prisons and sentences were realistic tobeing said, I've walked about Central London with no worries, yet have been the subject of a mugging attempt not 5 miles from my front door in a local city centre. Chris Palmer, Southampton, England The letterthen??? Lilith Barrett, London, UK But Libby, it's not just Singapore, it's Hong Kong, Tpkyo, Taipei. They are all perfectlt safe after midnight. I take the tram back to my flat in Hong Kong after midnight and whenmore properties Holidays Skip Travel of the Week Mauritius Dinarobin Hotel Golf & Spa 7 nights From £1830 per person – saving £530. Explore the French Pyrenees
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