ADULTS who fuel the youth binge drinking culture by buying booze for children should be named and shamed, with their photographs put up around the town says Tory leader David Cameron.

Mr Cameron took time to visit Astley Bridge police station ahead of addressing the Conservative Party North West conference at the Reebok Stadium today.

And law and order was at the forefront of his mind as he welcomed recent news of on-the-spot £80 fines being issued to adults in Bromley Cross caught purchasing alcohol for under age drinkers.

But Mr Cameron said he would like to go further, putting a lot of the problem of binge drinking down to the activity.

"There is a problem with adults buying drink for minors and I would like to see systems whereby, when people are caught doing that, their pictures are put up in off licences all round town so people know that they have done it before and they shouldn't be trusted not to do it again," he said.

"It is a good example where we can't just count on the police, we need to have everyone taking their social responsibility and that's shopkeepers and the rest of us, as well as the police. "

On the day a jury found Little Hulton man Mahmoud Maksoudian, aged 22, guilty of stabbing to death 16-year-old Andrew Holland, from Farnworth, Mr Cameron claimed his policy of allowing police to make greater use of stop and search tactics would help combat the problem.

But chatting to Astley Bridge Inspector Tony Kenyon and officers at their police station he discovered little enthusiasm for his proposed scrapping of "stop and account" forms.

These are forms filled out by officers each time their stop and challenge anyone and as well as names they include descriptions of the people stopped.

Mr Cameron claims these are over-bureaucratic but Insp Kenyon stressed that although they can take time, the information they contain can provide useful intelligence.

At Astley Bridge police station Mr Cameron was given a tour of the cells and a presentation about how working in partnership with other agencies and the introduction of police community support officers has helped reduce crime in the borough by 35 per cent over the last five years.

Afterwards he enjoyed a trip to Bury market to sample their famous black puddings and then onto lunch at the Reebok Stadium with party members from throughout the North West.