The Times carried a report about Sliema residents objecting to café tables by filing a judicial protest. The road from Gżira into Sliema is jampacked with cafés all with tables outside.

The majority leave no room for able-bodied persons to pass, let alone parents with pushchairs, persons in a wheelchair or the elderly such as my parents, who require the aid of crutches.

The options are to walk into the busy road or, in the case of many of the elderly and disabled, to resign oneself to a restricted walk or remain house bound. Is it too much to expect the Sliema and Gżira local councils, together with the competent authorities, to address this issue and enforce observance of the law as a matter of a routine?

Schengen may have removed border control in the EU but must one resort to litigation to enforce this most basic notion of freedom of movement?

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