Youths held after playing field wrecked

TWO teenagers have been arrested and charged in connection with alleged motoring offences and damaging public property at an Edinburgh sports centre.

The pair, aged 15 and 16, were arrested following an incident on Wednesday, 10 February at the Jack Kane Centre on Niddrie Mains Road.

The 15-year-old has been reported to the Children's Reporter and the 16-year-old was set to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday.

On Tuesday, it was revealed that thousands of pounds are set to be spent installing concrete bollards around playing fields.

The measures have been ordered after the playing fields were left damaged by joyriders six times in as many weeks.

The latest incident happened in the early hours of Saturday , when joyriders tore through the fields in a Honda Civic and carved deep tyre tracks into the turf. The vandals dumped the car then set fire to it.

Edinburgh Leisure has now ordered ten large concrete bollards to be installed around the pitches, at a cost of 3,550.