Mods - I looked for a similar thread but couldn't find one - feel free to delete if one exists.
So I came across this yesterday morning in my local section on the Beeb news website (I live in the West Mids). By the afternoon it had gone briefly viral on the site, and there's now a discussion over on PistonHeads about it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...ngham-30286466
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/t...%2E&mid=273978
As I'm in the area, I'm (kind of) affected. It's rare we'd go out to attend a meet, as we're normally busy / can't be arsed, but I often enjoyed briefly stopping by if I saw a meet in progress, to have a look and a quick chat.
It's a shame: a blanket ban on decent, law-abiding folk enjoying a hobby is a massive overreaction, and simply illustrates how over-stretched the police are if they've not been able to enforce common sense behaviour using existing legislation...