THE despicable behaviour of uncaring yobs frequently features in the pages of the Evening Telegraph.

But every so often an incident cuts through the shield of indifference that some people use to deflect the feeling of despair these actions prompt.

An act so low that it warrants genuine outrage.

One such incident involves young leukaemia patient Amy Schofield -- a young girl who is bravely fighting for her life for a second time.

Vandals trashed a playhouse described as the "one joy" in her life while she was in hospital for a check-up.

And her mum, Karen Bland, who gave up work as a psychiatric nurse to care for Amy, is so upset she cannot bring herself to tell her.

The state-of-the-art playhouse was a present from Karen's partner, Rod, who built the fully-decorated playhouse in the back garden.

The house, which includes kitchen equipment and working lights, took two weeks to put together but now Karen says it is destroyed.

You may say that the mindless yobs who inflicted the damage may not have known about the brave little girl who played in the house -- and would not have vandalised it if they had.

But these yobs are undoubtedly local -- and would have known if they had an ounce of public spiritedness and interest in their neighbours.

Not all out young people are bad -- far from it.

But the ones that are seemingly know no boundaries when it comes to despicable behaviour.