PENSIONERS say they were stunned to be handed condoms and drug advice by a police-backed scheme ahead of a football match.

Ronald and Margaret Fury were each given a ‘community safety bag’ including information about domestic abuse and sexual health, a lollipop and a St George's flag-design car freshener with an anti-crime message.

The couple were on their way to visit their grandchildren when they were handed the package in Frogmoor before England's World Cup clash with Slovenia.

Police said the Loudwater couple would have been told of its contents.

Mr Fury, 71, said: “It's a strange thing to give out to two people in their seventies. I looked at the girl who stopped us and laughed when she gave us these bags.

“It's just a shame they didn't give me an instruction book with them. I can't see what they are for and why would you give stuff like that to people like us?

“If they are looking to reduce teenage pregnancies, they should give condoms to teenagers and young people.

“If they're trying to reduce crime, then hand them out to gangs and other people – instead of giving them out willy-nilly to pensioners.

“The Liberal Club members certainly had a good laugh when we showed them.”

The packs were handed out by Wycombe Community Safety Partnership, which brings together authorities including council and police.

Thames Valley Police spokesman Marianne Shaw said: “Promoting good health, including sexual health, is a part of that work and everyone who was offered a bag was made aware of the contents so they could choose whether or not to take one.

“We do appreciate that not every item in the bags would be relevant to each person but everyone who took a bag should have something that applies to them.”