This is the shocking state that Sefton Park was left in after vandals covered an area of it in tyre markings and left litter after Bonfire Night celebrations.
People living nearby, volunteers from the Friends of Sefton Park group and the Penny Lane Wombles collected bags of used fireworks and empty beer bottles and cans from the Green Flag-awarded site today, November 6, after the vandals struck last night.
Group chairman Andrea Ku said: "Every year there seems to be more and more firework sales, and less and less public displays. People want to celebrate and we don't mind them doing it in the park, because not everybody has a garden. But the more people do it, the larger percentage we have of people who just refuse to pick up after themselves.
