VANDALS caused around £1,000 worth of damage to windows and doors at a Pendle community centre.

They kicked in six reinforced glass panels in the double entrance doors and windows at the side at Brierfield Community Centre on Saturday night.

Councillor Roy Clarkson, chairman of Pendle Council's Brierfield and Reedley area committee, said: "It's just mindless vandalism.

"I can't understand why people do this sort of thing.

"If it is young people then they need to realise that their parents and other people in Pendle money will have to face the bill to put this right through their council tax.

"This will costs thousands of pounds to put right.

"The centre is there for the use of all the community and these people are spoiling it for everyone."

Alan Binns, chairman of Reedley Hallow Parish Council, spotted the damage on his way to church on Sunday morning.

"I was appalled when I saw it," he said. It has taken a great deal of force and time to kick in those panels because they have wired glass in them.

"It's a disgusting thing to do; I've never seen anything like it."

Police have been informed and are looking at footage from the town's CCTV security cameras to see if they can identify the culprits.

PC Dave Bailey, of Nelson police said: "It's not been an attempted burglary, it's just mindless damage probably caused by juveniles hanging around or by someone who's drunk on their way home from the pub.

"They've either kicked at the glass or taken a brick to it. We're hoping whoever did this will be caught on the cameras but it's happened some time between 9pm on Saturday and 6am Sunday and it will take a while to look at the tapes."