A NEW political party aims to regenerate Golborne town centre and stamp out vandalism.

The Community Action Party wants to create youth facilities, ban on-street drinking and backs a zero tolerance policy for troublemakers.

The Party -- only registered within the last couple of weeks -- will give voters an alternative to Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties in the May local elections with candidates in Lightshaw, Bryn and Ashton-Golborne and, perhaps, Leigh and Abram.

Peter Franzen, the Lightshaw candidate, insists the party is purely interested in improving the community and not political infighting or personalities.

He said: "The party stems from people in the community who have been trying to improve the community with the same sort of policy.

Peter, married with three children, said: "Vandals are destroying Golborne town centre. Windows are being smashed all over the place. Police arrive an hour after the incident.

"Golborne should be like a country village. Instead there are lots of boarded-up shop windows. With supermarkets out of the town centre people are not going there. We want some real regeneration in town centres."

The Golborne community forum chairman has been campaigning for improvements for years, but says it's been an "uphill struggle".

The new party will be run by an executive committee targeting crime and disorder, improving youth facilities, and regenerating existing town centres.

He says: "Youth facilities have been badly neglected. The youth issue is very important as it is linked with crime and disorder. "

His party wants more sports and community centres, youth cafes and meeting places, a ban on drinking alcohol on the street and more police on the beat.

Don Hodgkinson is standing for CAP in Bryn and Stanley Barnes in Ashton-Golborne.