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By Maureen Smith, nursery nurse in a school nursery Monday morning arrived at our nursery once again with weekend vandalism to contend with. Our storage shed had been pulled apart, the locks broken and the playhouse windows smashed.

Monday morning arrived at our nursery once again with weekend vandalism to contend with. Our storage shed had been pulled apart, the locks broken and the playhouse windows smashed.

Once more the joiner was called in to put us back to rights. The afternoon was warm and sunny and our playground had been set up with climbing frame, building bricks, car mats, tumble tunnels, bikes and scooters. We were lucky that the joiner could drive up to our fence and work with his sharp tools just out of the playground but well in sight of the children. Before you could say 'hammer and nails' he had a large audience, and by the time he had started to use them he had an even larger one.

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