THE wanton vandalism at St Patrick's Primary School playground certainly has left the school's pupils devastated on their return to St Pat's this week after the autumn break.

The raiders not only wrecked the much loved greenhouse in the playground, but took the tyres from the trim trail and threw them down the path to Station Road amongst other activities that will take time and funding to repair.

This certainly did not seem like a 'whim' attack, it looked a very organised piece of wrecking which took out well loved and used facilities by all the pupils in the Station Road school.

The police are on to the case and hopefully the perpetrators will be caught and they might have been the people who has caused problems at St Patrick's Church, just yards down Station Road a couple of weeks ago.

Like the incidents in the Cowdenbeath Community Woodland, this has been caused by youngsters who have decided to have fun by causing damage to other people's property.

How can this sort of activity be stopped? Parents could certainly help the cause by trying to keep tabs on what their kids have been up to on the evenings they have been out and about.

The St Pat's school community will get things back to normal soon but to have to tackle this at all is simply not right and perhaps those who carry out such acts should think first before they start their wrecking spree.