The Craven Herald secured the lifting of reporting restrictions on a teenager who was handed Skipton’s first anti-social behaviour order.

The boy is now no longer able to indulge in threatening behaviour anywhere in the town – unless he wants to end up back in court with the threat of custody hanging over him.

The Herald told magistrates that the public had a right – and need – to know the terms of the order so that it could be effectively policed.

The paper made representations in the Skipton court as magistrates decided on how to treat their first ASBO, designed to protect the community from loutish behaviour.

The banning orders can dictate where people go and what they do.

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