Vandals target Oldbury allotments

A vital gardening service for disabled adults in Oldbury will be out of action for at least a week after heartless vandals ransacked a series of allotment plots.

Yobs caused an estimated £5,000 of damage as they set fire to sheds and slashed a new polythene growing tunnel at Dudley Road allotments, which belong to Sandwell council disability services team, in the early hours of Saturday.

One shed was burned to the ground and another was almost completely destroyed in the attack at the Dudley Road East site, in Tividale, which happened in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Dozens of people with learning and physical disabilities visit the project each week to grow vegetables and fruit with help from council staff. Activities at the site have been cancelled for at least a week while the clean- up continues.