Safety features a target

Two of eight supposedly unbreakable models of children designed to make motorists aware they are passing a school have now been knocked down by vandals.

The safety features stand outside Hawtonville Junior School on Holden Crescent, Newark.

One of the models has already been removed by the county council after it was damaged, repaired and then damaged again.

In the latest incident, another model is believed to have been rocked until it became dislodged from its half-metre square concrete mounting. The damage was noticed on Tuesday.

The school head, Mr Richard Cooper, said: “I am very disappointed. I suspect children and more than one.

“It would have taken several people to dislodge it given how heavy it is and how well embedded in concrete it was.

“It is extremely foolhardy given we are trying to protect children and they do work as a preventative measure.

“I am always grabbed by the fact that they are there when turning into Holden Crescent.”