Businesses sickened by disgusting mess made by drunks and rough sleepers

PACKING half empty beer bottles into black bin bags, washing away puddles of sick and urine and picking up the odd heap of human excrement. It wasn't in the job description for any of the people working at shops on Trinity Walk in the city centre.

- By JOEL MOORE

More than a dozen independent businesses are based in Trinity Walk in the city centre

(JOSEPH RAYNOR)

Yet that's what workers have to do most mornings as they deal with the mess left by people out drinking and rough sleepers.

"It's disgusting and embarrassing for our clients," said Claire Parr, who has been running Steele Hairdressing on the thoroughfare for 12 years.

"It's absolutely ridiculous. Cans, sick, lots of wee, faeces. At least four times a week we are out with bin bags and we have to disinfect quite a lot."

Business owners say council workers used to more regularly wash the street down early in the morning, leaving it clean by the time they turned up.

"They used to jet-wash before we got here but I've not seen them for a long time.

"I can't remember the last time they were here," said Ms Parr, 51.

"We used to get to work and it was lovely but they just don't bother anymore. It's definitely getting worse. I think Nottingham is falling apart as a city.

"I've thought about moving. Nottingham generally as a city has got worse."