A pre-school has been broken into for the third time, leaving volunteers frustrated.

Vandals caused damage that would cost about £500 to repair after they broke into a shed behind the Baptist Hall, in White Horse Avenue, Halstead.

The hall is condemned and is empty, but charity-run Parkfields Pre-School is based in the church hall.

The vandals smashed the windows, broke a fence, broke open a pre-school’s shed and threw it’s bikes around and overturned all the toys.

Shalene Aves, chairman of the trustees who run the pre-school, said in her eight years in the position, they have been broken into three times.

“We are just really cross, but it is one of those things."