A SURVEILLANCE camera recorded scores of people -- including several well known heroin addicts -- visiting a Golborne house during a police undercover operation.

The hidden cameras filmed visitors to a home where George Anderton lived with his parents over a three-day period.

Officers raided the home and found £964, drug dealing paraphanalia and traces of heroin on digital scales.

George Anderton, aged 38, of Rothwell Road, appeared at Bolton Crown Court for sentence yesterday after admitting four offences of supplying heroin.

Judge John Roberts jailed him for four years and three months.

Simon Temple, prosecuting, said during the operation, the police team noticed many people visited the house for very short periods. Many parked their cars some distance away and walked or ran to the house.

Many of those visiting the house in Rothwell Road were known to the police and many were convicted heroin users. One man, Kirk Sedgewick, was stopped and found to have a £10 wrap of heroin on him.

When police searched the house they found the tips of disposable plastic gloves often used by dealers to make up a £10 wrap and a 'tooting tube' used to smoke heroin.

When interviewed by police, Anderton said he had a heroin habit of between two to four £10 bags a day, which would cost him around £240 weekly on benefits of £104.

When asked by police where he got the extra money from to pay for his habit, he said people visited him to buy cigarettes and tobacco and he bought and sold jewellery.

The court was told Anderton had a long criminal record, including offences for dishonesty and possession of drugs.

He had a long history of heroin addiction and only broken the cycle when in jail.