The bad eggs come out at night'

FRIGHTENED RESIDENTS SLAM YOBS WHO HAVE TURNED PARK INTO NO-GO ZONE

- GEORGE LYTHGOE

THUGS with big dogs and mopeds have left some people living in fear' on estates, residents have claimed.

During the day, Dootson's Park in the Butts Bridge area of Leigh is pleasant in the spring sunshine.

But when skies darken the park, along with the banks of nearby Leigh Canal, have reportedly become meeting places for youths behaving anti-socially.

A neighbourhood watch member, who asked not to be named, described youths sneaking into bushes to do 'drug pick-ups, and mopeds being ridden erratically along the streets. She says 'young lads' keep big dogs as 'weapons, using the zip wire in the park's play area to train their jaws.

She claims to have been threatened after interrupting a drug deal - being told 'we'll find out where you live' and, in a separate incident, that she was charged at by a thug on a motorbike while walking along the canal.