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Meet Liverpool's answer to the Avengers who patrol the city at night looking for wrongs to right.

The group include Roger Hayhurst, 26, who goes by the name Knight Warrior; ex-soldier and insurance broker Tim Taylor, 38, also known as Templar.

The other two members of the group, perhaps understandably, wish to remain anonymous but include a 19-year-old forestry student, codenamed Black Mercer, and an unemployed 33-year-old, named Radical.

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The superheroes dubbed by the Mirror as 'Liverpool's answer to the Justice League' are all from Liverpool.

They say the only crime they have "solved" so far is alerting a man to three women who were trying to sneak a wallet from his back pocket, but that hasn't stopped them doing good deeds elsewhere.

When they're not fighting crime the super friends deliver packages of food and drink to the city’s homeless each weekend.

They are all part of a movement called the Initiative which sees ordinary people transform themselves into heroes.

Groups have sprung up all around America and are now spreading in the UK.

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Leader Roger said: "It’s not about vigilantism.

"We will patrol the streets late at night in the rougher areas and look out for any trouble which we will film and pass the footage on to police.

"We have each customised our outfits with police armour and motocross protection gear from eBay so, if we do come across any trouble we have the right body wear for the job.

"Hopefully we will be able to talk most people out of commuting a crime just by our presence. After all, our outfits themselves are a bit of a talking point."