Alright, so I think they're getting the CCTV off next door now for the police.
We haven't had that in any other shop.
We don't get it in Risca Shop.
And we don't get it in Pontypool.
And we never had it in Blackwood.
And the other two were slightly off the road.
It's only here we've had that problem with kids like that of that age group.
Some of the older boys that hang around out here are very sweary and shouty and making rude comments, but to themselves sort of things.
They're not really bothering us.
But they are quite, well they're quite big.
They're tall, they're big, stocky, and they're quite loud.
And it comes across a little bit intimidating.
I don't know if they're aware of that, but the younger kids we have a problem with on this street, like that, well I think it's only one little group, we had, only once we had trouble in Risca.
Well, the only time we ever had any problems in Risca was Tara Holloway's older son, which I got on video screaming at me on the lane.
That's the one that broke the roof.
And then the other one that sexually assaulted somebody, these are the ones to do with the pantry, booted out a sign on the way past of his mates and broke it.
And I ended up having to pay for it because he damaged it.
And then there was one in Pontypool, but that child was actually a care child in a care facility.
And they've moved her along because she's problematic anyway.
So she's gone somewhere else, England way I think now.
So she was creating too many problems.
So.
And she just had a week away, she was just off the wall, she was.
She was, I think she was like under 16, but she was involved in other children that wouldn't normally be in any trouble.
So I think they moved her because there was like issues with other children and whatever.
But the children that come across here, that little age group, create a problem for all the shops going across here.
Not just us, but they've created damage this afternoon now.
And they were told, you know, fresh.
I was in the loo.
Fresh and Fetch had gone out and said to them, you're on CCTV.
Stop what you're doing.
I think they'd thrown stuff at the windows, I think they had.
Our stuff at the windows, that's what they'd done.
And I could hear something when I was making my way out, you know.
It's like an obstacle course isn't it?
And they'd already smashed something out there.
I don't know what.
And they were just smashing stuff up.
Literally like just any old thing they could get their hands on.
They smashed up not just my stuff, other stuff.
Because there's other shops that's got stuff out the front.
And they've done it right the way down there.
But our toy trolley, they'd smashed up stuff.
Thrown stuff down the road.
Fair play people were picking it up like.
But they then kicked and threw some of the toys over the gardens on that lane.
So obviously you know that it was because they got out price labels on them.
Because they tried to say the freshener said that they could have them for free.
And I said no we didn't.
I said no I know you didn't.
And there's price tags on them anyway.
So they're just making that up.
But they've chucked them.
But they've probably damaged or just watched them because they've broken plastic.
And you know they could injure somebody like an animal.
They have been thrown over the garden.
I can't see them over the fences or anything.
But if you go in and you think what the hell is this?
Then it's obviously come from these.
Then they went down the lane and there was three of them.
I've only got the two.
They've got it all on CCTV and we probably have because we cover everywhere blooming.
Like big brother in our shops and then out the front.
they picked up that sand bag and thrown it on Fresh and Go's car and damaged his car as well.
If it had hit the wind scream of force.
It was quite wet it was.
So it was probably difficult to lift.
But if they had thrown that with force they would have probably smashed the wind screen.
I would have thought.
But you know they didn't have enough force to do it.
The one legged it as soon as he seen me coming round with the camera.
He'd gone down the bottom where the car was.
But the other two would be there.
But I think it's the same little bunch that we had trouble with the other day.
Remember the one that was screaming the other day?
But they've created.
Well I worked it out 41 50 from what I can see.
Because they booted some stuff over the garden.
So I don't know.
And there was about five or six of us out by the amount from the shops that witnessed that.
And they've made racial comments to the other shops as well.
So I worked it out.
It's about 41 50.
But obviously we're on half price.
It would be about 20 pounds worth of damage.
So if the parents can get in contact with us and pay that.
We won't take it any further with the police.
But you need to speak to them and tell them not to do it again.
But I don't know what fresh and go up to.
Because I think they've had trouble as well.
And the other shops have had stuff kicked over and what have you.
But we don't have that as a rule.
With the other children.
We don't have it in Pontypool.
Sometimes we get a little lens.
We'll run past and they'll pick up.
One of them picked up a pram once and wouldn't let it go.
And started screaming.
And we'd be like, oh take it.
You know.
Or like they'll pick up something.
And you know.
We'd be like, oh just have it.
This is only a couple of quid's worth like.
Or whatever.
But we've never had it.
Like that age group then.
I don't know.
End primary.
Beginning sort of comprehensive.
The way they behave around here.
There's like a little bunch of them.
There's about 20 of them there is.
This is the little bunch that keep going in there.
In the marketplace.
And they were like up on the roof the one night.
How they didn't fall through.
And the police were like, we're not going in there.
They said we're waiting on the fire brigade.
I said, well because of the heights.
And they were like, no because of the asbestos.
They need to go in with breathing equipment.
So you know.
And they were like, I wouldn't go up there.
They said with all that.
They said to us, don't ever go up there if the kids are up there to get them down.
They said because it is full of asbestos.
And you're taking all that in.
You know.
Taking it back home on your clothes and stuff.
And once it's broken see asbestos is damaged.
That's when it creates, that's when it becomes cancerous look.
So anyway, I think we had a planning thing through today to say what they were going to be doing over there as well.
It was a bit technical for me.
It was only
It was only like different code things.
And what have you that they've got to do and activate.
I've started bringing this stuff in.
Code things they've got to do and activate and what not.
I was reading it with a customer here because the customer said are they taking your shops down as well.
Because somebody else asked me that.
I said no I don't think so.
I said I haven't heard anything about it.
You know our landlord I haven't heard anything about it.
But then when we looked it wasn't.
It was all about what's going to be happening over there.
And it's going to be flats.
There's going to be some commercial units and what have you.
But like the guy said today.
He said oh the parking.
If they put flats there.
Parking is going to be even worse now than what it is already.
So You know.
Explain to your children.
It's not just the fact that it's abandoned and it's dangerous.
It's the asbestos that's in that building across the road.
So that'll be good.
Now they've got to go I think they've got to get more planning now to start taking that apart.
But we've got a front row seat.
You hear me.
See what they do.
I think because of the asbestos and the fire damage.
I never went in there so I can't even remember what it looks like.
I went in the nightclub.
But that was it.
But I think they've got to take it right the way down to the ground.
I don't think they can take it so far and then build on it.
But it's quite a big place.
And somebody else has said that there's actually like a house that's like involved in it or something as well around the other side.
But I can't I can't figure it out.
I'd have to look on Google I think and have a look at pictures of it.
Because I can't, to me it's just like a big block.
I can't visualize it at all other than the nightclub.
I remember you go up like two flights of stairs and they used to have like a sideboard and they used to push it across like their gate when you used to go up in the checkmate.
And then you go up in the checkmate and it was rough and they had fairy lights.
But it was a good night when it's a good night in the checkmate.
It was a good night out.
And they had poles didn't they?
To dance around.
And did they have like a stage and then two poles and then did they just have... was it like plastic garden furniture?
I can't remember.
I went in there a couple of times see.
And I can't remember.
My uncle years ago used to be a bouncer there.
Years ago when I was little.
But I can remember going in there once or twice.
But it used to be a good night out in the checkmate.
I used to like Caerphilly.
I used to come to Caerphilly and we'd start off... I think the Kings.
What's the one round the corner?
Is that the courthouse?
I used to like the courthouse.
And when we used to go in there as a little group they used to give us the little landing upstairs.
That was nice because they knew us quite well.
So we used to have that little posh bit up the top.
Well it's not posh I suppose.
But it was a bit posher than being down the bottom.
So I think that's the courthouse.
And then we'd start off like in the Kings in the middle.
And then go to the railway and you could have a dance in the railway then.
And then those were the three pubs we used to go.
I don't think there's any other pubs other than like the Green Lady I've gone to for food years ago.
And then we'd wait for the checkmate to open then.
But it used to be a good night out.
And then we used to go to the blisters in Bargwood.
And you'd have the foresters and the porters in Blackwood.
And then what was the one that you used to go up the stairs to?
It's got a different name now.
But I think it used to be a con club.
Was it a cons club when it was really old fashioned?
I went up there when it was a cons club a few times.
I think I was in cadets then.
I don't even know if I was underage.
Might have been underage.
And you'd go up the stairs up above the estate agents.
Used to be the cons club.
And it was like an old fashioned cons club.
And then it changed then.
And I went back out with my friends.
And it was like a night club-y, bar-y type thing.
But I don't know if it's still there now.
But then it got quite notorious because the bouncers used to chuck people down the stairs quite a lot.
That one.
So people used to avoid that one.
I used to like the porters.
Forresters was more like if you wanted to dance.
That was.
I'm trying to think now.
Didn't really go anywhere else other than like now and again Newport or Cardiff.
We used to like Cardiff and Swansea.
That's where we used to go.
If we were going somewhere we'd go Cardiff.
Can't think of anywhere else.
No, I can't think.
But yeah, you need to have a chat with these children guys because they are a nuisance.
That's the only problem we get across here.
When we first came in we had problems with one or two weirdos.
We were like out straight away.
Cars and cars were like out themselves.
And they've gone.
We haven't seen them since.
And this is the only problems that we do have by here.
It's quite lovely like this all day until this little bunch of kids come round.
And they create mayhem for everybody then.
So if you know who they are can you tell them to get in contact with us so that they can pay for the damage they've caused today and then we'll drop it if the parents will speak to them.
If not then obviously we'll go through the police.
Because it's not just me it's the other shops as well.