I am aware that there are little or no facilities for your children in and around the Mellor area but please can you make sure that as parents or guardians you are aware of where your children are, who they are with and what they are up to.

Particularly when they are having sleepvers, parents should maintain contact with each other to check where the children are staying, as we have recently found youths wandering the streets in the early hours of the morning.

We have spoken to most of the youths in Mellor about cerain locations where they should not be ahnging around.

These include...

St. Mary's Primary School and car park - we have had incidents of children on the school roof which is obviously very dangerous and actually in the paper skip.

St. Mary's Court - as noisy and rowdy behaviour does worry and unnerve the residents in the sheltered accommodation.

The graveyard area - playing scatter or running around the gravestones could cause severe injury and there has been a lot of litter left behind by the youths.

The derelict garages near to the quarry off Mellor Lane, Mellor - it's very unsafe and the youths do hang around this dark and secluded area.