Vandals burned and snapped some newly-planted trees in Doncaster Road Park leaving the local community pleading to ‘let the trees grow’. And in the latest incident, a bed frame was set alight in the Southmead park.
Claire Smith, a member of the group Friends of Doncaster Road Park and Embleton Playground said the surrounding lawn was destroyed after bed frame was burned last weekend. She said: “It is on-going thing.
“In December and February, 87 tree saplings were planted over two phases. Quite a few of these were damaged or snapped in a spate of incidents in the last week of May,” said Claire. This included setting fire to water bags attached to the trees, which she said, were taken off and set on fire or burned while still attached to the tree."
