Growers tackle vandals

Tough measures are being brought in to crack down on thieves and vandals targeting a Staffordshire village allotment.

Anti-vandal paint and police patrols are among measures now in place after a series of thefts from Cheslyn Hay Allotments.

Police now have their own key to go onto the site between Wolverhampton Road and Pinfold Lane at any time.

Lynda Foster, of the Cheslyn Hay allotments association which manages the site, has promised that anyone caught trespassing, stealing or vandalising the area will be prosecuted.

She said: "If anyone is caught they will be prosecuted.

"Not only are they stealing crops they have damaged crops by throwing wooden pallets around. It's done just for the sake of it – chucking them onto the crops so they are breaking, damaging and killing the crops."