CAMPAIGNERS have given up on their fight to have a footpath to a service station closed.

Residents on Redvers Road, Darwen, which is home to mainly elderly people, today revealed there was nothing else they could do to sort out the problems of teenagers cutting through the road to get to the new McDonald's restaurant.

Stuart and Linda Chelton held the first residents' meeting last year to act against the path which leads to the M65 Services.

Stuart said: "Kids come down the road and drop litter. The road is so much noisier now.

"There are many elderly people on this road and it frightens them."

Home-owners struck up a petition against the path and handed it to Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council earlier in the year. Council members are expected to discuss the issue either this month or next.

Mr Chelton said: "We've waited for two months now and nothing's happened. There's nothing else we can do so the campaign has come to an end."