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Doggers have been stopped from gathering at a beauty spot made famous by the hit TV drama Broadchurch.
Fans of the ITV show began flocking to the cliff-top car park at Eype Beach, Dorset, after it became a ratings hit in 2013.
It featured in dramatic scenes where child character Danny Latimer was murdered in a wooden chalet.
But while Broadchurch fanatics visited the site during the day, fans of less family-friendly activities flock there after dark.
Because of its remote and darkened location, couples were said to have been seen having public sex in front of strangers.
In 2003, a dogging website promoted the Eype Beach car park as an “ideal spot” for randy couples.
But now a new firm has taken over the site – and introduced charges and a parking ban between 9pm and 8am.
Local resident Alex Bulger joked: “Will be a bit weird going dogging in the daytime but I guess we all have to adapt.”
Although the practice of dogging is not explicitly banned by one particular law, there are multiple offences anyone caught having sex in public could be charged with.
These include anything from indecent exposure, public lewdness and gross indecency, to name a few.
People caught dogging could be prosecuted under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 or under the common law offence of outraging public decency. In some cases, doggers have found themselves on the sex offenders register.
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