OF course the two 12-year-old boys wandering the streets of Deane, Bolton, at 4.30am looking for Pokemon Go characters is worrying.

And, of course, the youngsters – and some adults – currently walking about totally pre-occupied by their mobile phones to track down these strange creatures and gain a variety of achievements is slightly unnerving.

But, the reality is that this is likely to be one of those trends, just a phase, that will pass in the fullness of time. And then we’re on to the next one.

This is the way commercially created trends work. Who remembers loom bands now?

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