Drunks could get blanket bans from entering all 80 pubs and clubs in Colchester in a bid to make the town's streets safer after dark.

Crime-fighting business leaders set out the idea as they laid down a battle plan against troublemakers for the next year.

They want to re-enact the successes of the town's daytime anti-business crime organisation in the night-time economy.

If successful, it would mean troublemakers who are excluded from one premises are given the boot from all establishments within the group and their photo and details passed around.

The news came as members of Colchester Businesses Against Crime, COLBAC, met at the scheme's first annual meeting.

The scheme, which was launched in July last year, has already seen 110 first warning letters handed to troublemakers seen stealing from shops or causing a nuisance.

Six final warnings have been handed out and one exclusion notice has been given - automatically banning the offender from all COLBAC shops.