Residents frustrated by "brazen" drug dealing outside their homes have created a series of road signs highlighting crime in an attempt to shame police into action.

Guerrilla street artists have painted a parking bay marked 'drug dealers only' and installed six signs on lampposts after being commissioned by neighbours in Tower Hamlets, east London.

The anonymous group of artists, who call themselves the Columbia Road Cartel, were asked by the Weavers Community Action Group to help underline levels of drug crime around Columbia Road, near Shoreditch, east London.

The fake street signs, which were put up on Sunday, include 'Crack pick up point', 'give way to oncoming drug deals', 'needle free zone' and parking bays labelled 'drug dealers only.'

The artwork was was produced in response to an apparent lack of action taken by police over drug dealing, which is said to take place at all hours of the day.