CHILDREN in Lancashire police's Pennine division have been invited to free mobile phone marking sessions as part of a Home Office initiative to cut street crime and robbery.

SAFE is a national scheme run jointly by Crimestoppers and the Home Office aimed at educating youngsters with lesson plan available to secondary schools. Local police support the initiative by offering the free phone marketing to pupils in Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale.

The sessions will be operating tomorrow at Charity Arch, Burnley town centre (opposite Woolworths, next to the bandstand), from 10am to 2pm; Woolworths, Place De Creil, Nelson, 10am to 2pm; Outside the market hall, Market Street, Colne, 10am to 2pm; Whitworth Library, Lloyd Street, Rossendale, 9.30am to 11.00am; Bacup Police Station, Bank Street, 11.30am to 1pm, and the Fearns Community Sports College, Fearns, Moss, Stacksteads, 2pm to 3.30pm.