THE manager of Andover's household waste recycling centre is fuming over the mindless acts of vandalism committed at the site over the past few months.

George Bates says he's 'totally fed up' with the teenage vandals who are setting fire to trailers and throwing waste items over the ground at the Shepherd Spring Lane centre.

"It's a constant problem, but recently things have got worse," he said.

"It's got to the stage now that if I came in and caught someone I hate to think what I'd do. But, if I did do anything, I'd lose my contract, and it wouldn't just be me who'd go, it would be my boys as well."

George has been the manager at the site for two and a half years. He is continually battling against the vandals' actions. They are destroying property and making the workers' lives a misery.

"In the last month we've had our office cabin burnt out at a cost of £5,000, the stock trailer - where we store items to sell to make our living - set on fire costing another £1,000, and we've just rewelded it for the fourth time.

"One morning we came in and found 150 or so records had been taken out of their sleeves and thrown across the park.

What really gets me is the hours and hours we have to put in to repair it all.

"They don't think of all this clearing up which goes on before we can even open up."