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Dudley councillors are calling for tougher action on badly behaved tenants including drug tests for cannabis abuse.

Members of the authority's Communities and Growth Scrutiny Committee had their say during a debate about the latest report on antisocial behaviour (ASB) in the borough.

At their meeting on September 24, councillors welcomed reforms to how the council tackles ASB which have led to improved satisfaction scores but said more needs to be done to deal with people who break their tenancy agreement.

Cllr Parmjit Sahota said: "Things are getting better but there is still a lot of ASB and quite a lot of work to do.

"There is a lot of ASB from from council tenants, we are far too lenient on enforcing tenancy conditions. Some tenants are getting away with a lot of ASB is

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