PEMBROKE Town Council has hit out at the “mindless vandals” who targeted the town’s railway station shelter, just weeks after it was renovated.

The station, marking the entry to the historic town for many visitors, saw its shelter daubed with obscenity-strewn graffiti last weekend.

Town Clerk Suzie Thomas said: "Pembroke Town Council is trying its hardest to clean up Pembroke, making it a nicer place to live and promote holiday makers to our historic town. It is very disheartening to see, only weeks after this shelter has been renovated that mindless people have sprayed with graffiti.

“Whoever is responsible should be ashamed. Many people have spent their own time, planting flowers, cleaning and tidying up the station only for this to happen.

“If anyone knows who is responsible for this please report it to the police. These people must be stopped.”

The graffiti at the station is just one of many acts of vandalism to hit the town in recent months, with the nearby Golden Grove School suffering their attention.

Even more shockingly, safety equipment in the water near the town’s castle has recently suffered at the hands of vandals.

Mrs Thomas said: “We have also had lifebuoys removed from the Commons, Mill and Castle Pond and just thrown into the pond, and complaints from local businessmen that tiles have been ripped off their roof and broken from children climbing onto the roofs of their property. It is mindless acts of stupidity.”

Pembroke county councillor Jonathan Nutting posted on Facebook: “The town has just paid for the shelter at the station to be cleaned. Two weeks later and some mindless fools do this.

“With the vandalism at Grove School we appear to have a small group who are intent on wrecking anything we try to do. I hope you will help stamp it out now!!!”