A PARK has become the unlikely scene of a determined fightback against vandals.
Scores of fruit trees, planted as part of a massive community effort at Pentre Mawr Park, Abergele, last November were uprooted following an attack by vandals.
More than 200 people - including local schoolchildren, the Friends of Pentre Mawr Park and Conwy County Council staff gathered to plant fruit trees as part of National Tree Week.
But just two days later their hard work was ruined by heartless individuals who pulled up between 30 and 60 saplings and discarded the young trees around the park many which suffered due to being exposed to cold weather.
Last week Friends of Pentre Mawr Park, along with representatives of Conwy County Borough Council and North Wales Police, were joined by civic dignitaries to plant trees to replace those lost.
John Pring, chair of the Friends of Pentre Mawr Park, who was the first to discover the devastation caused by vandals which saw scores of trees and plants ripped out of the ground. welcomed the replanting effort
He said: “We went down there the following following morning and collected them together putting them against the wall and covering them with leaves to protect from the frost.
“We all asked ourselves the question should we plant again after what happened and came to the decision not to let them beat us.
Darren Millar Clwyd West AM said: “Not only did the vandals' disgusting and heartless behaviour spoil the park but it also ruined the hard work of the schoolchildren, volunteers and council workers who laboured to plant them.”