Folk on a select Aughton estate should feel that little bit safer from now on with the launch of a new Neighbourhood Watch scheme there.





Some 20 residents on The Serpentine off Prescot Road are now members, Aughton parish councillors heard at their March meeting.

News follows a visit from Lynn Wareing of Lancashire Constabulary who briefed councillors on the advantages of the scheme at a recent meeting.



Watch member Alan Lenton, who updated members on the good news, is now looking for help with buying signs warning miscreants they are being watched as they visit the small estate.