An emergency meeting was being held today to discuss spiralling crime on a Liversedge estate.

Community leaders, school governors, Batley and Spen Labour MP Mike Wood and the police were expected to attend the meeting at RM Grylls Middle School in Hightown to discuss problems on the Windybank Estate.

On Sunday evening firefighters from Cleckheaton and Brighouse attended two car fires in Central Avenue and Third Avenue in Windybank.

Windows in a Honda and a Volkswagen Golf were smashed by bricks and lighted materials were thrown into the vehicles to set them ablaze.

Vandals also threw a brick through at least one house window at around 11.20pm.

Police are investigating the incidents.

Inspector Charlie Glass, Dewsbury Police community safety officer, was also expected to attend today's meeting to listen to people's concerns and try to come up with a solution.

"Windybank is not an area that has been brought to my attention, but that is certainly not to say that there aren't local problems or difficulties," he said.

The meeting was requested by RM Grylls' head-teacher, Angela O'Brien, who said there were still scorch marks in the school hedge from the car fires on Sunday.

"The meeting is to let people voice their opinions on how they feel about the level of police presence on the estate," she said.

"Do people feel there should be more police?

"There are still things happening on the estate that we'd rather weren't and we want to discuss a plan of action."

She said it was a shame that outside agencies were spending money on the estate only to see vandalism occurring frequently around the area.

She said the next step could be an open evening for parents to explain the options to them.

Workmen were last week called in to make urgent repairs at High Bank First School in Hightown after vandals smashed sections of playground and storm grates.

Millbridge J&I School in Liversedge was also targeted by vandals who smashed two windows.

The total cost of vandalism at Millbridge School is almost £1,200 this year.