RESIDENTS is meeting on Thursday to decide how to tackle gangs of young louts who are terrorising a housing estate.

Angry neighbours are moving away from the Ormrod Street estate, Farnworth, because mobs of up to 30 teenagers are making their lives hell.

A meeting is due to take place at sheltered accomdation Thomas Garnet Court on Glynne Street. The gathering has been arranged by the Dixon Green Resident's Association and starts at 2pm.

Residents, from around 60 houses, have been logging a catalogue of the abuse in diaries.