In February, Peter and Brian Glover, teenage brothers from Leicester, were thrown out of their home and issued with Asbos after neighbours claimed that the pair shouted abuse, associated with troublemakers, and played with fireworks.

The boys, aged 17 and 14, became the first children to be named and shamed, but mother Claire could hardly have criticised them, since, unable or unwilling to control them, she made it an anti-social hat-trick for the city's answer to the Waltons. The Glovers are just one of several families that have multiple orders against their name.