YOUNGSTERS on a Leyland estate are to be given a set of new goal posts after council workmen demolished their own home-made ones.

Children living on the Wade Hall estate used to spend every evening kicking a ball. Local builder Martin Benson stepped in, bought some wood and built them posts.

But when the Preston Borough Council heard about them, workmen took them down for safety reasons.

A spokeswoman for the council said: "The posts were not safe."

The dangers of some portable goal posts were hammered home following the death of a Blackburn teenager last December when the equipment toppled over and crushed him.

But parents of the young footballers kicked up such a fuss the council has now agreed to meet them with a view to supplying a new set of posts.

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