PERVERTS who prey on children who use the internet strike fear into any parent's heart.

And child pornography available on the web would knock any sane person sick.

The subject is soon to be highlighted when Coronation Street's Sarah Louise falls victim to an internet pervert.

This coincides with a Home Office publicity campaign on this worrying subject, and TV presenter Carol Vorderman regularly brings the matter to the public's attention.

Bolton families should take some consolation from the fact that Greater Manchester Police has the only specialist branch outside London to deal with this problem.