VANDALS wrecked a children's playground last week, splattering the swings and slides with yellow paint.

Grandad Nigel Kelley discovered the damage just hours after he had taken his two grandchildren to play there.

"I can't understand how on earth someone can do it," he said.

"Lots of mothers take their kids to play there during the day."

Mr Kelley, 72, said the vandals had ruined a safe place for youngsters to go during the school holidays. On Thursday a spokesman for Macclesfield Borough Council said they would send a workman to the playground in High Legh to repair the damage.

"We would normally clean it off," he said. "But when it's an oil-based paint it is often easier to just paint over it.

"To send someone out for half a day would certainly cost a couple of hundred pounds."

Two weeks ago yobs damaged a gate at the playground near Pheasant Walk.

"It was only done up in the winter by the council," said Mr Kelley.

"It's supposed to be a secure area and this vandalism wants some attention drawing to it."Last week a housing committee closed a playground in Jersey and dismantled its equipment because of continued vandalism.

Yobs sprayed the £15,000 Nicholson Close and Pillar Gardens facility with graffiti and pulled up or burned play mats.

Meanwhile, Macclesfield are currently setting up a Friends of the Park organisation to bid for Government cash for the playground on Knutsford Moor.

They have already bought new equipment for the area but last month said they would wait until they got the extra funding to install it.