Public toilets in Stroud town centre have been reopened by the district council.
All of the cubicles on Bedford Street are unlocked as of yesterday after the council shut them down in the summer because it was finding too many needles.
New to the toilets are a special bin for the disposal of drug paraphernalia on the outside of the toilets along with the promise of heightened CCTV monitoring and more patrols.
A month before the council closed the toilets over unsafe numbers of discarded needles it cut the number of times it cleaned its toilets, as the SNJ discovered last week (bit.ly/2ylR7ch).
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