A MOTHER is warning children to steer clear of a park in Blackburn after bullies attacked her eight-year-old son twice in three days.

Jordan Lee Gordon suffered burns and an eye injury inflicted by teenagers while playing in Griffin Park near his Coleridge Street home, in Blackburn.

Worried mum Donna Jamieson said the park has become worse over recent months and is now telling other parents not to let their children go near it.

She said: "Jordan was playing out in the park and of the older ones were setting fire to things on the playground.

"One of them chucked some molten plastic in his eye -- we took him to hospital and his face was a real mess.

"Then, a couple of nights later, he came home again in floods of tears after an older lad fired a toy bow and arrow into his other eye.

"Kids can't go on the park anymore for being bullied."

Mrs Jamieson said she was too frightened to report the matter to police, fearing retaliation from the thugs.

The area's Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinator Pat Forsyth, said the community had started a new Eastrose community group and it was keen to put things on for youngsters.

She said they were applying for grants to build a football pitch and had appointed a youth leader.

Mrs Forsyth added: "It's getting beyond a joke around here. We are getting one bad an incident a night almost. There's no point us trying to do things for the kids if this group is going to carry on vandalising everything."