Across the road prostitutes, many addled by drugs, tout for trade and take punters into the darkened park.

But the shocking scenes represent just an ordinary evening for residents in Deepdale, Preston, who are blighted by such anti-social behaviour.

Desperate to highlight their plight, they invited the Lancashire Evening Post into their living rooms to witness the drug dealers and street workers blatantly flouting the law on their doorsteps.

The residents, many with young children, pointed out continual activity, particularly around two phone boxes at the junction of Meadow Street and East View, which have been used for dealing, taking drugs, as a toilet and even by prostitutes to perform services.

The LEP's cameras were left rolling for eight hours between 5pm and 1am on East View, a residential street opposite a park off Deepdale Road known as the Deepdale triangle.

Police have previously warned street sex workers using Preston's red light district not to venture into residential areas. But our investigation – which was filmed on a Saturday night – reveals a catalogue of anti-social behaviour from suspected prostitutes and dealers, right outside people's homes.

In one clip a woman sits on a wall close to the phone boxes on East View moments after taking a man into bushes in Deepdale Park, pulls a used condom from her clothing and throws it on to the park.

Another is filmed accosting pubgoers on their way home in front of a row of terraced homes on Deepdale Road.

Read our three-page special investigation on prostitution in Monday's Lancashire Evening Post

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