POLICE are disputing medical evidence that they cannot give identical twins anti-social behaviour orders.

And the legal standoff will now continue until Valentine's Day.

Lawyers representing Katie and Ashleigh Lynch, originally of Edgeside, Waterfoot, accused of wave of drunken misbehaviour, say the pair suffer from Asperger's Syndrome and attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder.

And they have medical reports casting doubt on whether the twins would be able to understand the provisions of any ASBO imposed by the courts.

Solicitors representing Lancashire police, which wants the ASBO enforcing, had originally asked for the report to be clarified.

But now following a hearing at Reedley Magistrates' Court the police will now seek their own medical assessment of the twins.

Magistrates at Reedley have adjourned the case until February 14 next year - and extended an interim ASBO on the Lynch girls.

Police Community Support Officer Nick Stratton, of Rossendale police, said: "Our legal team is disputing their medical report and we are now going to obtain our own report.

"We cannot accept what they are saying about the ASBO and the case has been adjourned for further medical evidence."

The interim ASBO bans the girls from using, or inciting any other persons to use, threatening, abusive, insulting or disorderly behaviour, likely to cause harrassment, alarm or distress to any people.

It is also bans them from being drunk in a public place, drinking alcohol in a public place, or carrying an open container of alcohol in a public place.

It was imposed following a series of complaints from neighbours and from within their own family.