WHAT has become of Church Street in St Helens? Walking down there you now can't miss seeing more and more people begging in the shop doorways of shops that have now closed down.

These people are not 'busking', they are just sat there drinking (and shouting across the street to each other), or are fast asleep.

It is bad enough that we do have so many empty shops in the town centre without having to step over sleeping bags in the middle of the day. Surely the police can move them on? What impressions visitors to the town must be getting.

S Ashton, town centre worker