Students taking exams had a last-minute change of venue after vandals struck a school building. |
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The couple believe vandals deliberately dropped the heavy panel on to their car from a bridge. |
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Every public bench along the river had been systematically smashed by vandals last summer. |
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The vandals broke into the car, damaged the ignition and stole her walking stick. |
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A woman today told of her horror after every room in her house was spray-painted by vandals. |
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Windows were smashed and the roof was damaged but the vandals failed to get into the building. |
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Council chiefs have slammed vandals who deliberately damaged a historic priory. |
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Generous people have raised money to replace church windows that were destroyed by vandals. |
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Police have pledged to step up patrols in a bid to get tough with the vandals. |
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The school has been damaged by vandals on a number of occasions over the last few years. |
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We have had many problems over the years with vandals, litter, graffiti, drugs and drink. |
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Only weeks ago, vandals set fire to a portable toilet in a school playground. |
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Angry shop owners are calling on police to get tough with vandals who are targeting their businesses. |
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A mother has hit out at vandals who damaged a memorial to her teenage daughter. |
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He said all the trees on the land were damaged by vandals four months ago and only replaced this week. |
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New mobile wardens will be laying on night-time patrols to deter vandals and thieves who prey on visitors. |
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But two days before Friday's grand switch-on ceremony vandals removed bulbs from the display and smashed them in the street. |
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This is the minimum price the vandals must be made to pay for their villainy. |
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After a medical centre in West Bowling was targeted by vandals, fences were fitted out of the centre's own funds. |
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Mr Konemann planted bushes and shrubs to keep vandals and people with dogs out of the council-owned grounds. |
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And at about 2.30 pm the vandals went one further when a plastic-windowed bus shelter was gutted by fire. |
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It has now stood empty for more than five years and has been damaged by vandals who have started fires. |
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Residents across the country are being urged to take a stand against vandals, thugs and yobs that plague their communities. |
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A children's nursery which has become a target for vandals needs help to protect itself. |
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A cash-strapped Sea Cadet unit has had its donated minibus torched by vandals, months after all the unit's windows were smashed. |
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Investigating officers say the vandals had to dig 3ft into the ground to get at the wooden casket containing Margaret's ashes. |
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A disabled car owner has been left with no transport and a hefty bill after vandals sprayed his car with a corrosive substance. |
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Select a release site that is an easily accessible, sunny location, not highly visible to vandals and others who may disturb the release area. |
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A waterside football club has been left with a bill running into hundreds of pounds after a spate of attacks by vandals. |
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Haven't churches, synagogues and mosques met the same fate at the hands of vandals? |
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Eastleigh police are vowing to get tough with vandals who are putting the lives of motorists at risk by hurling missiles at cars. |
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The much-loved gardens have been closed in line with library and coffee shop closing times to limit the access vandals have to the grounds. |
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However, she said she wanted a conciliatory approach taken with the vandals in the true spirit of the sculpture. |
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I spent an entire day, nearly 12 hours, because of inept vandals, who as it turns out had a field day in this garage. |
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The couple believe the vandals knew their identity, even though the couple's car had Irish plates. |
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Doors and windows at the Barfield Road building have been damaged by vandals and intruders in recent weeks. |
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I was transfixed by the thought of the young vandals from the neighbouring council estate breaking in at night. |
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We are fighting back against the litter louts, the illegal fly-tippers and fly-posters and the vandals who deface the city with graffiti. |
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The vandals had covered the floors in powder paint and sprayed walls with poster paint. |
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The forester implored anyone seeing vandals damaging the tree to report it immediately to the police. |
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Sadly, one night, some vandals broke into a locked storeroom and dented a French horn and broke the mouthpiece off an antique bassoon. |
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Thus he was soon joined by others who also petitioned to preserve the ruins before they were destroyed by pothunters and vandals. |
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The move is to prevent vandals from causing further damage to the property. |
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The empty house became the target for vandals, and five years ago it was badly damaged in a fire. |
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St John's has long been a target for thieves and vandals and only three weeks ago racist slogans were daubed on the church walls. |
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The vandals have also defaced rocks elsewhere on the moor, including popular routes for walkers and visitors to the area. |
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A local constituency office in Keighley has been targeted by vandals who have defaced the building with graffiti. |
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York Minster clergy expressed shock and outrage today after vandals defaced its historic walls with offensive graffiti. |
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A distressed son is calling for greater security at a cemetery after three gravestones were desecrated by vandals. |
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Five months after a church was desecrated by vandals, defiant parishioners have rebuilt their place of worship. |
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Mindless vandals have desecrated the grave of a stillborn baby for the fourth time in less than five months. |
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He was sickened when, just months later, vandals desecrated the memorial, built to commemorate villagers who fought in the First World War. |
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The city is being given to the despoilers, speculators, land mafia and vandals. |
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More than 40 shop windows were damaged after vandals went on a trail of destruction in Southchurch Road, Southend. |
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And later, when it detached itself from the concrete altogether, the council blamed this on vandals. |
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Police in Swindon are urging residents to come forward with clues to help snare vandals who sprayed racist graffiti on walls in Old Town. |
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But now, after the club spent months renovating the site, vandals have covered the walls with graffiti. |
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As well as the smashing of the glass hands vandals have also graffitied areas on and around the sculpture with swastikas. |
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Relatives visiting loved ones' graves thought vandals had struck when they arrived to see scores of gravestones knocked to the ground. |
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We are also working with the police to identify vandals and squatters, one of whom has been evicted from a ground-floor flat. |
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The roadside can be beautiful with the fresh green of the grass, until it is disfigured by some vandals as they pass. |
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Some vandals had thrown something onto the electric doofer on the top of the train. |
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Authorities finally admitted they couldn't seem to make a dent in the onslaught of dopers, vandals and thugs. |
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His outburst blaming the vandals on the estate for frightening his wife to death, was a jarring moment of realism. |
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To bring a case to court, an officer would have had to have witnessed vandals in action, he said. |
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If it gives way on every issue that crops up, it may as well board up the Town Hall and let the vandals take over. |
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Mr Stoff said he did not find anything inside the store, but the vandals had made a hole in its window. |
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I don't think vandals would waste their time on her out-dated piece of junkyard scrap metal. |
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Councillor Colin Tandy spoke about various river sites which have been completely ravaged by vandals. |
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The vandals mainly broke off wing mirrors and damaged windscreens in the vehicles. |
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Allotment holders are seeing red after burglaries and raids by vandals left their gardens in a mess. |
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A new youth shelter being built in Hutton recreation area has been knocked down by vandals even before it is completed. |
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A number of tools were stolen from sheds and the vandals uprooted vegetables and plants, throwing them around. |
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Since its closure in October, the club building became a burnt-out wreck after being targeted by vandals and being gutted by two separate fires. |
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A pensioner has slammed vandals who wrecked his car, cutting off his disabled wife's lifeline to the outside world. |
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However there is a hardcore of yobs and vandals who don't give a monkeys about fox hunting. |
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A woman who is a repeat victim of car vandals has hit out against the yobs who damage property. |
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I'd strongly advocate bringing back the birch and use it to punish vandals. |
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Traders in the area, off London Road, have been heavily targeted in the past by vandals and yobs. |
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Residents have appealed for police patrols to be stepped up to rid an estate of yobs and vandals. |
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The building had been boarded up on several occasions and was a prime target for vandals. |
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On Saturday afternoon power boats were let loose from their moorings and on Sunday vandals did the same to canoes. |
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Mindless vandals covered his beloved car with eggs and flour and let the tyres down. |
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In 1996 he revealed his laid-back attitude to his work after vandals smashed up a life-size model of a plane. |
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say I don't think the perpetrators were embittered citizens or teenage vandals. |
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Officers believe the vandals followed a route as the targeted streets all link up with one another. |
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Policing of the surroundings of lakes and tanks may become necessary to stop vandals and litterbugs spoiling our water bodies. |
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Recently, town councillors in Pickering warned that vandals who had been wreaking havoc were ruining the market town for everyone. |
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Anyone who can identify vandals responsible for these tags can call the council's 24-hour graffiti hotline. |
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Now she doesn't even bother washing the tags from her property as the 48-year-old is resigned to the fact that the graffiti vandals will return. |
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Nothing looks worse than a fire which appears to be a transparent pyramid tagged by graffiti vandals. |
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Shops in Epsom are supporting the fight against vandals who blight the borough with their graffiti tags. |
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The council takes a dim view of this type of mindless destruction and will pursue aggressively all vandals. |
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Despite the interference of souvenir seekers and vandals, they managed to salvage most of the ship's machinery. |
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The basin pipes were tampered with and the vandals squirted cleaning fluid all over the brand new carpets. |
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The fire was caused by vandals who pushed a lit taper through the letterbox. |
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It has since been targeted by vandals and has been set on fire on numerous occasions. |
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The vandals also tried to reach 300 seats from Manchester City's former Maine Road ground which are protected by a large and heavy tarpaulin. |
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During the early hours of Sunday vandals overturned the towering scaffolding outside the school, causing flags and poles to crash into the road. |
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Besides churning up the meadows, the vandals have been tearing along paths and dirt tracks. |
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She said too few Anti Social Behaviour Orders had been slapped on young tearaways and vandals, despite the misery they caused residents. |
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This is the fourth time in just about as many months that the glass has been smashed by vandals. |
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It still looks to me like vandals because you can see clearly where they have run down the banking. |
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Once again it has been paralysed after vandals blocked coin slots with brown mastic. |
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Neighborhood vandals and our own children bashed our windows in with rocks. |
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The vandals used an ax from the temple toolshed to smash a statue of Avalokitesvara. |
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Some mindless vandals have damaged the bust of Archbishop Huddleston, unveiled in Bedford last year by Nelson Mandela. |
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Ever since the advent of mindless vandals, buses have been a favourite target. |
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From where I am, I see yet again more litter and destruction by mindless vandals. |
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Why do mindless vandals frequently ruin our beautiful parks and public buildings? |
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The fire brigade and residents deserve protection from these mindless vandals. |
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It's a bit of a shame that mindless vandals have done this before a welcome opening. |
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The Garavogue is a fast-flowing treacherous river and we can do without those vandals who steal the ring buoys. |
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After all, what's to prevent vandals from deleting information or adding misinformation? |
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They are burglars, dealers, vandals, thugs, muggers, arsonists, a menace to society. |
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Speed camera bosses are undeterred by vandals who defaced signs warning drivers that mobile speed cameras operate in the area. |
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These pathways make convenient boltholes for thieves and vandals to melt into. |
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They say the increase is unjustified because the car park is a magnet for vandals and has no lighting. |
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And earlier this month New Road Methodist Chapel in Heys Lane, Blackburn, fell victim to vandals who smashed stained glass windows. |
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Vital funding for Settle Swimming Pool has gone up in smoke after vandals again set fire to a paper recycling trailer. |
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A singing Santa was sabotaged and a nativity scene stoned when vandals attacked a street of popular residential Christmas lights. |
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Life-size models of two shepherds used in a church nativity scene have been decapitated by vandals. |
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The play area was fenced off in September after vandals left the site unsafe for young children to play. |
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The skateboard park has already been targeted by vandals who smashed glass bottles over the site. |
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In the year that followed, however, the sculpture was wrecked three times by vandals who smashed out its specially blown coloured glass light tubes. |
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The mindless vandals then caused extensive damage to the playing surface. |
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Most vandals and yobs are created by irresponsible and neglectful parents. |
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With the schools now closed for Easter holidays, fears are growing that other prominent buildings will be targeted by the mindless vandals and their spray cans. |
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It is our intention to re-erect fencing damaged by vandals and joy riders. |
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The substations, which distribute power to the local community, have been forced open by vandals who have damaged the equipment inside causing power cuts. |
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The beleaguered authority is to discuss the way forward in ridding the city of unwanted homes, which are magnets to vandals, at a meeting next Monday. |
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The reaction generally to the defacement must surely have sent a clear message to the vandals, and the last thing one need do is to pander to them. |
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The vandals threw flowers, sprayed the garden, benches and plants with paint and stabbed holes in the sealed polytunnel used to protect flowers grown for the event. |
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He believes vandals could easily lift any of the sections of rail, or bolts, dumped by the railside and derail a train by laying them across the tracks. |
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It was quite nice to begin with but after a few years it became neglected and the vandals moved in, smashing down arbours, trees, the children's play area and the sports hut. |
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With her absolute loathing of the working class, she ironically created a species of vandals whose sole purpose in life seems to be to destroy the society they live in. |
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Last month the Evening Press backed a move by York Police to flush out graffiti vandals who daub walls and buildings in our city with their unsightly scrawl. |
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Young vandals have scrawled their tags along Malden Road for years but the problem has got worse in recent weeks, particularly since the start of the school holidays. |
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The country is stuck with the vandals, and vandalism is all they can commit, because that is who they are. |
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As Andrew Sullivan wrote yesterday, a word I re-used on television last night, they are vandals. |
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Since then the centre has stood idle and fallen victim to vandals. |
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In some cases, grocers have refused to sell food and petrol to anti-drug officials and vandals have slashed the tyres of their government vehicles. |
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We have had an advance factory at Shandon lying idle for several years, and ultimately it was nothing more than a grandiose target for the vandals. |
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Police fear the vandals will view clean walls as a blank canvas. |
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Thieves, vandals, and con artists appeared, and online mafias emerged. |
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The farm at the centre of controversial plans to build a hotel in Rossendale has been targeted by vandals who attacked a new gate and sty, allowing animals to escape. |
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On Friday night club staff called the police after six vandals climbed onto the roofs of the buildings at Stainton Park and began to tear up felt and guttering. |
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Looters and vandals damaged more than a dozen stores and businesses in Oakland, Calif., news reports said. |
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The West Cross Centre developers appear to have given a heaven-sent present to graffiti vandals living near to PC World on the Great West Road in Brentford. |
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The problem with the trees however lies with the fact that as young saplings they are very weak and susceptible to damage by vandals or simply by traffic or passers-by. |
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But fortunately the vandals took fright and scampered away in a hurry. |
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The vandalism he describes includes the Purton Road Bridge being covered in graffiti, benches all smashed up and removed, trees being snapped off by vandals. |
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As well as springing suspects in early morning raids, police have been employing DNA technology, linking vandals to their crimes by blood left at the scene. |
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Shattered glass on the bus seats greeted the first driver to arrive for work, who discovered that vandals had broken in through a hole in the fence. |
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In recent weeks the graffiti vandals have defaced the memorial. |
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Drive-by vandals hurling rocks and marbles at glass shopfronts are forcing business owners to fear for their safety and bear the cost of thousands of dollars in repairs. |
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In May vandals went on the rampage trashing cars in a spate of incidents on the estates, including smashing windows, slashing sunroofs, tyres and scratching paintwork. |
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The pool was attacked three times last month by vandals who caused thousands of pounds-worth of damage when they ripped out CCTV cameras and smashed windows. |
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These include a crackdown on youths found with knives, forcing vandals to clean up the areas they destroy and setting up a hotline for members of the public to report neds. |
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After sneaking in under the cover of night, the vandals chose these symbols to deface. |
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She'd heard about all the trouble we'd been having with vandals and thieves knocking our gear off, so she said she would feel safer if the posters were inside. |
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Photographer Kurt Wenner captures these ruins before vandals erase them completely. |
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A group of youths in Silsden are fed up being labelled as vandals and are working with Silsden Business Watch to find an area where they can ride their bikes. |
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Madison homeowners are livid after vandals defaced their homes. |
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Safety cages have been put up at windows and doors but vandals are still getting through. |
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The vandals smashed windows and steering columns and tried to hot-wire some of the cars. |
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A big fence will derail vandals and nosy parkers on a disused railway line, it is claimed. |
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But vandals broke into the ground, put three wooden chairs on top of a bench in a dug-out and set fire to them. |
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Heart-rendingly, though, callous, unthinking vandals smashed the glass and it was eventually removed. |
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The attacks come just a week after vandals used bolt croppers to chop down swings in recreation grounds in Pantolf Place and Jubilee Street. |
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It's been more than a year since people living in Peterlee Walk, Walsgrave, called on the city council to fix a light wrecked by vandals. |
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The vandals appear to have used golf clubs to gouge out large divots on greens at the courses. |
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A third tree, a massive longbeak eucalyptus in Pinal County, Arizona, died after vandals set fire to its trunk. |
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Police said vandals smashed car windows and released the handbrakes so they would roll into walls and garden gates. |
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In 1998 Frederick Delius's Incidental Music to Hassan was chosen by Metro to be played over its public address system as a deterrent to vandals. |
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On the ruins of Parkside station stands a white stone memorial, once badly damaged by vandals but since restored. |
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The statue has been a target for vandals since it was unveiled. |
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The disfiguration of the statue by vandals resulted in a public outcry. |
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It wasn't far enough away to think about transmatting and besides, that was no longer a viable option, what with vandals having wrecked some of the booths in the area. |
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A watersports club is blaming boy racers and vandals for its closure. |
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Every cable box in the Yardley constituency has been treated with anti-graffiti paint, meaning the work of vandals can be easily wiped off with soapy water. |
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Gaia ark's lame-mind vandals, mouthin' malarky, scar land, made Gaia wane. |
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In mid-December, vandals in the Sicilian town of Catania detached a menorah set up in a public plaza which prevented the lighting of a Hanukah candle. |
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In contrast to viruses vandals are malicious auto-executables, such as Java Applets and ActiveX controls that can potentially debilitate corporate desktops. |
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The lads selected for the 1950s-style paratroop training are the lippiest and baddest bunch with thieves, vandals, fraudsters and ASBOs in their midst. |
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One of our bottle stores has been damaged because vandals have jumped on the roof and smashed the door, so we now have a derelict bottle store on site. |
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