I REFER to your front page story on March 28 about the problem with youths speeding along Lever Edge Lane during the day. As a resident of this area I have witnessed this, not occasionally, but every day for over 12 months.

Roy Whittle, head of South College, says the youths are not his students. Maybe not, but they are the attraction. Every day, cars park up at lunchtime to meet with students then they race up and down throughout the lunchtime period. When lunchtime is over, they go until it is home time, when it starts again. School holidays are a blessing -- peace at last.

John Heaton, head of Hayward School is not without blame. His pupils can do what they like as long as it's not on school property. Parents coming to pick up children at 3.30pm park illegally on the road markings, across residents' drives and prevent access and, if they are asked to move on, we are verbally abused.

It's time something was done about this problem. Residents should be given a chance to have a say without fear of getting our property damaged. No-one will give names to the newspaper because they are afraid.

A worried resident

Name and address supplied

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