Winchester'S new neighbourhood wardens have been unveiled to their local community ahead of their deployment on the street from next week.

The wardens' job will be to reduce antisocial behaviour on the estates they will patrol and to help the local neighbourhood out with various other issues.

Initially there will be two wardens and a co-ordinator assigned to Highcliffe. Bosses at Winchester City Council hope that eventually the project can be rolled out to other areas.

This week council bosses held a special meeting to introduce the three members of the neighbourhood warden scheme.

They are 39-year-old Peter Stevens, a former sniffer dog handler originally from Croydon, 34-year-old Nigel Devlin, a former member of the Royal Navy, and co-ordinator Joanna Naylor, 25, a former community safety officer.