A WORRIED mayor is to call a meeting after an elderly woman cut her head in a doorstep run-in with a teen girl gang.

Clitheroe Mayor John McGowan wants to rally police and community leaders in an effort to stop teenage nuisances making life a misery for residents in sheltered housing schemes in the town.

The juveniles have been smashing plant pots, pulling down washing lines and "generally making a nuisance of themselves."

In the latest incident, teenage girls woke up residents of Corbridge Court in Kirkmoor Road at about 6am on Saturday.

An elderly woman in her 80s slipped over and gashed her head outside her home after telling the young tormentors to go away. She was taken to hospital, where she received stitches.

Coun McGowan said: "What on earth were teenagers doing out at that time?

"Do their parents know where they were?

"Elderly residents should not have to put up with this."

A spokesman for Clitheroe police said there had been a "recurring community problem" at Corbridge Court and other spots.

He said: "We won't be taking any action regarding the incident on Saturday morning because the lady in question wasn't actually pushed and there are no firm descriptions of the persons involved.

"But there have been a couple of incidents of juvenile nuisance and we will be keeping a close eye on the areas concerned."

Coun McGowan said he is now to call a meeting between Housing 21, which owns Corbridge Court, the police and residents in an attempt to sort out the problem.

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