STRESSED-out parents are being invited to a new support group where they will be assured of a warm welcome and listening ear.

Set up by three local mums, the Pressure Off Parents group (POP) aims to provide support and advice to parents whose children may be behaving badly, as well as those who feel unable to cope and mums and dads who simply want more adult company.

Providing emotional support and a befriending service, the group plans to organise day trips during school holidays and to help families to book cheap, fun holidays.

All meetings are free and open to parents who live in the borough who have a child aged 16 or under.

The three women have been running a POP group on Thursday mornings between 10am and noon at the Parish Church Hall, Church Square and are now opening a class at the youth base, Broadway Community High School, Grange Park on Tuesday afternoons between 12.30 and 2.30pm. It will operate on a drop-in basis.

For more information, contact Ann on 01744 633552, Sam on 07720125271 or Carole on 01744 636039.