BUS bosses have condemned as an idiot the vandal who threw a brick at one of their vehicles, shattering a side window.

Seats were showered with shards of glass as the Wilts and Dorset Bus Company vehicle drove through Netheravon on Thursday at 6.25pm, but no one was hurt.

Both police and the bus operators said it was a stupid act that could have caused serious injury, especially if the brick had hit the windscreen.

The firm's operations manager, Chris Gordon, said the vandal was an idiot. He said it was fortunate there were no passengers sitting on that side of the Pewsey to Salisbury bus at the time.

He said there had been a spate of similar attacks on buses in Salisbury but it was rare for one of the company's vehicles to be targeted in a village.

Mr Gordon said: "It has become a bit of an epidemic in Salisbury over the last 11 or 12 months and the police are now treating it very seriously."

Pewsey police are appealing for witnesses to contact WPC Nikki Burt on (01672) 562222.