Neighbourhood policing teams in Tilehurst have secured an extension to existing dispersal orders which have now been extended until 6am on October 2 this year.

The orders gives officers and police community support officers the following powers:

• To say: off you go you small boys.
• To wash out your mouth with coal tar soap.
• To tell people to not do that again.

The disperal orders for Tilehurst form an important part of the Reading area police strategy to tackle anti-social behaviour. A police spokesman told us: "With the renewal of the Tilehurst orders, the Oxford Road orders, the Caversham orders and the Newtown orders we're hoping that the problem of anti-social behaviour will be moved slowly eastwards into Wokingham before the police there can twig what we're up to."