Dog poo mum speaks out

Furious parents have kicked up a big stink about a "plague" of dog mess blighting streets and are calling for tougher penalties for dog owners. The problem in Hornsey has got so bad that up to 20 piles of germ-laden excrement can be found on the worst affected streets.

Mums have called for dog walkers to be "named and shamed" to end a surge in fouling since the beginning of the year.

Penny Steed, 47, a health services manager of South View Road, said: "We have vast quantities of poo in the area. In Nightingale Lane and Rectory Gardens every 10 steps there is a dog mess - either a neat little pile or the kind of stuff that's been trodden in and walked around.



"Outside Campsbourne Primary School, under the trees, it is caked in dog poo and the children walking into school walk through it." Other streets badly affected are Priory Road, North View Road, South View Road, Hawthorne Road, Park Avenue North and Redston Road.

Ms Steed has been speaking out against the blight for four years and says she has been contacted by more than 40 concerned parents recently since becoming known as the "dog poo mum".

"I think someone should be fined pretty heavily and their picture and a picture of their dog should be on the front of the local newspaper - a name and shame thing," said Ms Steed.