Old people are "scared to leave their homes" according to residents in a village where gangs of youths with fireworks have taken over.
Woolton Village, a leafy suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside is being overrun by 'marauding and intimidating' young people according to locals.
Police have introduced dispersal zones and some 22 young people have been given anti-social behaviour warnings and told to stay away from the village, Liverpool Echo reports.