'I'd rather go to jail than pay £100 fine for cycling around my town'

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An 82-year-old man says he would rather go to jail than pay the £100 fine he has been issued for cycling through a town centre.

Barrie Enderby, from Grimsby, who regularly bikes around Grimsby town centre, says he told a council officer 'stick it up your a**e' when he was slapped with the fine earlier this month.

The pensioner said he was stopped by an officer as he left a bank on Victoria Street South and told he was not allowed to ride his bike in the street.

He told Grimsby Live he has been riding his bike in the town for 40 years and has never been fined before. Barrie was issued a £100 fine under a Public Spaces Protection Order, which was introduced back in the town centre in 2019 to deal with nuisance behaviour, such as cycling in the pedestrianised zone and drinking in the street.