Vandals in attack on toilets at allotment site

Vandals broke into an allotment site in Walsall and smashed a £3,000 toilet block "to pieces".

The thugs also stole some copper piping from the block.

Two sheds were also broken into in the attack on the Goscote Lane site.

Gardeners at the site discovered five sinks and four toilets demolished yesterday morning.

Allotment holders said they were dismayed at the damage as the block was installed two years ago for the use of primary school children who visit the allotments, using £3,000 of funding from New Deal for Communities.

The vandalism happened over night on Tuesday at the site, which is managed by North Walsall Allotments Association.

"In the last three weeks we have probably had as many incidents like this," said Graham Bond, aged 64, of Harden, Walsall, who has an allotment on the site.

It is not the first time the allotments have been damaged. In 2008 two men were jailed for smashing up 10 greenhouses and stealing their aluminium frames.

Police were called to the site by allotment holders following yesterday's discovery.