A county councillor has called on Northumbria Police to do more to tackle anti-social drivers and said the town has become a "formula one track".
Coun Richard Dodd was speaking to Morpeth's neighbourhood policing team at Monday's meeting of the Castle Morpeth Local Area Council, with officers attending to give an update on policing in the town.
Coun Dodd, who represents the Ponteland North ward, called on the force to do more to crack down on the issue.
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He said: "Whenever I come into Morpeth, the boy racers seem to be everywhere. I've never read in the papers about somebody being done for anti-social behaviour.
"I know it's not frontline stuff but people are scared. It's out of control.
"You don't need to go anywhere, you just need to sit and listen because of the exhaust noise. They drive around this town like it's a formula one track.
"What I see is the same handful of cars. They're the same people, and it is the same in Ponteland. It's the same people being all the disturbance.
"I banged on about this five years ago, because the hoteliers and the B & B owners were saying they were getting messages saying it was a lovely place to stay, but guests hadn't been able to sleep because of the noise."
Officers explained that they had not received any reports of such issues, and therefore were unable to do anything about it. Coun Dodd said he would try to get the details of those involved to the officers so that they could update their intelligence.
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