[West Ender]

I live in a "well-heeled" area, it's what you would call Middle Class. I came to live here 30 years ago when it was a quiet, small village.

In the middle of the village we have an ancient stone cross surrounded by a cobbled square with a few benches. It's here, particularly on a Friday evening, where the youths congregate to drink anything they can get from the local off-licence, get hold of what drugs are available, swear at passers-by and fight with youths who come from another village 6 miles away hell-bent on trouble. We no longer have a manned police station, when we did there was very little bother, so the police arrive regularly in vans and arrest them. It doesn't do much good apart from the confiscation of knives and other weapons.

Now these kids are not deprived. They don't come from "sink" estates and their parents are not out of work or in low-paid jobs. Many of them have nice homes, expensive holidays and mums who drive 4X4s to do the school-run. It's not the richest area in North Cheshire but it's not a poor place.

It's a sad, undisciplined world we live in.