Former Salisbury businessman Brian Moore with his fence wrecked by teenaged vandals at the controls of a mechanical digger.

Angry residents have called on contractors working on Salisbury's

Beehive park and ride scheme to tighten security after teenagers started a mechanical digger and ploughed through gardens in it.

The digger, which had been left in Hudsons Field, demolished the back garden fence of an elderly woman's house in Castle Road and then veered into the garden of the next-door home of former city businessman Brian Moore.

"Luckily my ground is higher than my neighbour's and the digger stopped against my fence - otherwise it could have gone on and careered through several other gardens," said Mr Moore (62).

"All it needs to start up these vehicles is a piece of bent wire in the ignition. They need to be somewhere more secure where children cant get at them."

Wiltshire County Council contractors Ringway Parkman are using a section of Hudsons Field to store materials and vehicles while carrying out roadworks associated with park and ride.

A spokesman for Ringway Parkman said the tractor involved in the incidents belonged to a sub-contractor and had since been removed from the site.

"The batteries of all the vehicles are now disconnected and taken away but protecting building sites from vandals is always a problem," said the spokesman.