Related: Manchester's library vandals know the cost of everything and value of nothing | Letters: Ralph Gee What the Manchester story seems to symbolise runs even deeper.
Until the new laws allowed them to put restrictions on offenders, close down houses used for drug dealing, seize dealers' assets, disperse gangs of youths, fine vandals on the spot, the victims had nothing to protect them except the usual process of the criminal law, which was hopelessly inadequate.
But they say the Tories are the real vandals, for ramming constitutional changes through at indecent speed.In this section The capital's creed Extra time Vexed in the City Hot, greasy potato Sacking in the age of Dave The ermine flies More where it came from Lost in the woods ReprintsThe bill causing all the fuss is a mess.
They may be grizzled and brave, but in almost every country with a coastline, too many have proved themselves to be environmental vandals with no sense of their long-term interests, let alone those of the poor fish.Update, Friday 14th.
The culprits may be computer geeks, vandals or bored teenagers.
WHEN Camilla Goddard first started to keep bees in London, it was difficult to find places away from anxious neighbours or teenage vandals.
But the vandals of language, those who would bulldoze its ancestral elegance into a heap of four-letter rubble, need no assistance.
Vandals superglued meters' coin slots (never anger a commuter) and the usually subservient city council staged its version of an insurrection.
Next to them on the uneven ground wobbles a portable toilet, its door padlocked against vandals.
They fended off vandals who sought to hijack the events.
Han Han, a writer, racing driver and one of China's most popular bloggers, called for looters and vandals to be punished.Ms Aoi's appeal received some sympathetic comments among the 150,000 or so that it attracted.
