Graffiti louts pile on vandal misery

VANDAL misery . . . Hollinwood Rugby Club secretary Fred Halliwell with the graffiti daubed over the walls

A vandal-hit rugby club where hundreds of Oldham youngsters have trained, has been attacked again.

Hollinwood Rugby Club in Fields New Road, Chadderton, has been covered in graffiti.

The scrawls have defaced the whole of the brick building and a metal storage container.

Vandals also hurled tiles from the roof and built bonfires on the training area in last Tuesday’s attack.

Disgusted secretary Fred Halliwell warned that the cost of clearing up could close the club.

He added: “We had another bonfire on Thursday when they piled a wheelie bin on top.

“I managed to clear up the training pitch and the local PCSO has been down to check the graffiti and thinks she may know who has done it.

“We’ve also had motorbikes chewing up the pitch.”

The club has been hit by serious vandals attacks over the past four years including damage to the roof when the clubhouse was almost blown up because a boiler flue was damaged.

Another attack took place when yobs forced two steel steel security gates — as an alarm was being fitted

Last year the clubhouse was trashed and memorabilia scattered on the floor, and the kitchen damaged.

Mr Halliwell added: “The only answer is a fence around this place. But we can’t afford one. All this vandalism is costing us a fortune, and we just hope someone can help us.”