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October 6, 2009

Photography banned from beach without council permission

By Dominic wireposts

A photographer was told he couldn’t take pictures on Sandbanks beach in Bournemouth without a permit, the Daily Echo has reported.

Steve Cook was in the middle of a charity photo shoot for the Help for Heroes charity on Monday morning when he was stopped, the Echo reports.

A beach warden told him that commercial photography on the beach was prohibited by a Borough of Poole bylaw, unless you had the correct permit, and the council has insisted that commercial photographers must have permission to take photographs on the beach.

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