Justice
Cardiff Shopkeepers Worry the City's Homeless Will Leave a Bad Impression
Retailers in the Welsh capital have asked local police to enforce an 1824 law that bans sleeping or begging on public streets.
The 2012 Olympics are technically already underway, with the first event taking place in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium (a women's soccer match between Great Britain and New Zealand). Outside the stadium though, shop owners are concerned that new visitors will remember the city's growing homeless problem more than the soccer matches.
The Cardiff Retail Partnership is asking local police to enforce a rather old law, the 1824 Vagrant Act, after retailers say they noticed an uptick in begging and public drinking on the city's major commercial streets.