A MAN dubbed a "complete and utter nuisance" by a judge has been given six months to prove he can stay on the straight and narrow.

Ryan Anderson, 25, the first adult in Rossendale to be made subject of an Anti Social Behaviour Order, was given a deferred sentence and his case was adjourned until July 16 by District Judge Andrew Meachin.

The judge had earlier hoped a place could be found for the defendant at a probation hostel out of the area to punish him and stop his offending, but no place was available.

District Judge Meachin said it was not uncommon for somebody taken out of their area of offending to take the chance to try and make something of their lives.

Burnley magistrates court earlier heard how Anderson, formerly of Dale Street, Bacup, was now living in Burnley and was banned from Burnley town centre between 8pm and 7am.

His solicitor told the court he did not seem to have committed offences while in the Burnley area and the majority of his crime was in Bacup. He last fell foul of the law last December.

Anderson, now of Calderdale Guest House, Holme Road, was made the subject of the two-year ASBO earlier this year and is already serving two concurrent community rehabilitation orders, including the Addressing Substance Related Offending Programme.

He admitted using racially aggravated threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour last October and using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, two charges of destroying or damaging property and affray last November.

Anderson has also admitted three counts of committing further offences during conditional discharges imposed for two charges of threatening behaviour, drunk and disorderly, failing to surrender to custody and criminal damage.