Police have urged villagers to help them reduce problems caused by teenagers.

Sergeant Esther Hobbs, who heads the Bingley Rural Neighbourhood Tasking Team, said police need more evidence to stop the young troublemakers in Culling-worth.

At a meeting of Culling-worth Parish Council she said: "There is a distinct lack of information and evidence. I have looked at every incident since the beginning of this year and at none has there been evidence.

"I think I know all the key individuals and we are at the evidence gathering stage."

Today representatives of the parish council, Parkside School, bus companies and the police were meeting to draw up an action plan to prevent the disturbances many of which have been blamed on Parkside pupils.

Parish council chairman Councillor Bryan Hobson told the meeting the location of the school had fuelled the problems.

He said: "Parkside should never have been placed in that location. I am sure Parkside is the catalyst for a lot of the trouble not because of the school itself, but a lot of wayward children home in from Denholme and Allerton to Cullingworth, because they go to school there."