Three for a quid - they're lovely!

You go to a market, you expect the traders to be shouting their wares - it's all part of the atmosphere.  Well not in Scunthorpe it isn't.  The council have unilaterally imposed a "charter" on market traders there which prohibits "pitching" as they call it. And it's no idle threat - one trader has been taken to court, had an injunction slapped on him which bans him from the market for three months, and been hit with costs of getting on for £1000 - and all for calling out his prices. Where do councils find these people?