The pub in Old Southgate. Nice one if you don't mind paying £5 for a cup of coffee and a croissant. Across the road is the old green with a pair of stocks in the middle. Apparently not still in use. Perhaps a spell in them being pelted with stale croissants might be a more effective community service or a better deterrent than being served with an ASBO. Hutton Think Tank are looking into the idea of using stocks in the Merse with an experimental prototype being put up on the Paxton Village Green. This will be a hi-tech version of the Southgate one (pictured above) which is distressingly old fashioned and raises health and safety issues. Paxton is a more likely source of custom than peaceful, well behaved Hutton. Moreover Hutton has no public space for a punishment area nor a pub as a source of missiles for the local citizenry to use on the offenders.  ¶ 11:08 AM