A mum has slammed the "dreadful" state of a children's playground after fence panels were ripped out of the ground by vandals.

Joanne Morgan took her children, four-year-old Amber and two-year-old Ethan, to the park behind Wyefield Court in Monmouth last Friday (13th May) but was shocked to see the damage.

For full story see Beacon 18/05/11.