DEFENCE solicitor Rob Ross is asking for prostitution to be legalised and says that the council is wasting money hounding the girls from the streets.

He goes as far as to say that it is disgraceful and that legalising brothels would get rid of the pimp element.

Prostitution is said to be the oldest profession in the world and it will always happen.

Legalisation would be safer for the prostitutes, would collect tax and would remove the nuisance of kerb-crawling from residential areas.