THERE will be a huge welcome for the legal chains clamped on the teenage trio in Rossendale responsible for an 18-month reign of terror.

For the named-and-shamed Haslingden three - Stephen Derbyshire, Jordan Carl Pilkington and Fillip Richard Sorbets - committed almost 90 offences in that time, including theft, burglary and assault.

Notorious for all of this, now they are publicly shown up as the first people in Rossendale to have anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) imposed on them by the courts in a case which is also the first in which Lancashire Police have sought orders against three people at once.

With such a record and reputation, it is absolutely right that people are aware who these young offenders are and what restraints they are now subject to - so that they are kept firmly to their conditions and punished hard if they do not.

For there is little point to ASBOs if those bound by them are protected by anonymity. How can the public play their part if they do not know the names or faces of the offenders? This is a vital point that some magistrates fail to grasp.

Encouragingly, the Burnley bench which has slapped ASBOs on this trio has empowered the public by full disclosure. And the strict terms and five-year extent of the orders -- including banning them from Haslingden town centre, from drinking, associating together and with others and causing any distress to anyone -- promise to end the intimidation and trouble that people in Haslingden have become sick of.

Rightly, the community police officer who has commendably helped to achieve these orders is delighted with the result. But he and his colleagues need the public's help to make it stick. For it is also the responsibility of the community to police these orders and make them work -- by looking out for and reporting and infringement of them.

These teenage troublemakers need to know they are being watched by everyone so that they dare not make trouble again.