Janet and I were just about to leave the house this morning to go down to town when the phone rang. It was Cllr. Jill Hood to tell me that vandals had overturned the flower boxes on the railings in Stafford Road near Walton island. She was willing to put the soil and flowers back in and I offered our help.
When we arrived we were greeted by a really sorry sight. Three of the boxes had been pushed over spilling flowers and soil onto the road. Jill and Janet immediately started to repair the damage and I went to look at something that had caught my eye outside the nearby bus shelter. On close examination the shelter had been damaged by fire and in the gutter were the remains of a melted and totally destroyed four wheeled recycling bin.
A local resident said she'd heard a commotion in the middle of the night but said that this was not unusual at weekends. Another passerby stopped to tell me that he'd seen a car driven by a youth doing 'wheelies' and travelling at a dangerously fast speed around Walton roundabout in the early hours of the morning.
Whilst we were there, Kevin, our very helpful Streetscene operator appeared on his road sweeper and cleared the road and pavement of the soil and then set to work to remove the debris from the arson attack on the bus shelter. I'll be getting in touch with the police today to see what they know about the matters.
