Shire Wars
Inner-city riots, football hooliganism, yobbery in Spanish resorts - and now the Shire Wars, public disorder in country towns.
According to Home Secretary
Douglas Hurd , the tranquillity of English market towns is being ripped apart by youths 'with too much money in their pockets, and too much beer in their bellies'. Chief constables have called for more police officers to hold the line against mass public disorder in small towns.
But is drunken violence in rural areas really such a new phenomenon?
Roisin McAuley reports from the front line of the battle between police and the forces of drunken disorder. Research LOUISE HIBBINS Producer BRIAN BARR Editor COLIN CAMERON BBC North West