Trees in a Trowbridge park have reportedly been snapped in half by vandals and were only planted a few months ago. 

The trees in the Langford Park playing fields in Seymour Road were attacked recently.

They had been planted earlier this year in the first phase of the Trowbridge Green Thread project designed to improve the town’s green spaces.

Cllr Mel Jacob condemned the 'attack as mindless vandalism’ and said she was ‘very disappointed’ by what had happened.

“Our plan is to trim them back and cut off the broken bits. There is a chance that they will survive but we won’t know until the spring,” she said.

“I think it is really sad and we don’t know exactly what happened.

“We have put a lot of effort into getting more trees for the town and we don’t want that happening.

“Once the tree is snapped, it’s snapped, there is nothing you can do. We have just got to keep on educating people not to do these things.”

Trowbridge Town Council received a £140,471 grant from Great Western Community Forests to plant around 270 trees in the town.

The council is applying for a second grant to plant an additional 200 to 300 trees in green spaces across the town.