Coventry drugs advice up in smoke

Coventry Community Safety Partnership has destroyed 5,000 copies of
a leaflet produced using £10,000 of Department of Health
funding because it gave inappropriate information about
drugs.

Stella Manzie, chief executive of the council, said that while some
of the advice in the leaflet was sensible, parts were “absolutely
unacceptable – in particular those parts which appeared to
encourage criminal activity”.

While the partnership had done some “fantastic work”, the leaflet
produced by the support team “completely misrepresents its views”.