A CRIME and safety group has folded due to dwindling numbers.

Bob Perry, chairman of the Darton West Crime and Safety Group, said it had shut down because only a few people were attending meetings, held at 3pm on Wednesdays every six to eight weeks at Priestley Avenue Community Centre, Kexborough.

Bob, 64, said it was set up about six years ago for the communities of Barugh Green, Kexborough, Darton, Barugh, Gawber Redbrook and Wilthorpe to allow residents to raise concerns and provide valuable intelligence and knowledge.

Bob, of Brookhill Road, Kexborough, who has been chairman for three years, said: "It's not been for a lack of trying. It fulfilled its aims for so long and just deteriorated."