A Bedfordshire charity, Preen, has been the target of mindless and disgusting vandalism over the Easter holiday.

Persons unknown broke into the Biggleswade offices of the charity, which helps disadvantaged local people with low-cost re-used furniture, and smashed electrical items, scattered the contents of first-aid boxes and defecated on the floor. Nothing was taken.

Earlier this year the shop of the Penine Pen Animal Rescue Charity in Oldham was attacked in three separate raids in a week, which caused £1,500 worth of damage, again with nothing taken.