In pictures: Public artwork on St Leonards seafront is ruined by vandals

They have targeted seating shelters on the lower promenade between Warrior Square and Marina, spraying unintelligible red lettering across a number of the shelters.

There are concerns they may also target other shelters, closer to the Goat Ledge Cafe that contain individual works, which include some painted by children from a local arts group as well as those by noted Hastings artsists, including Andrew and Eden Kötting.

Vandals have already hampered work carried out by a local artists collective to improve the look of nearby Bottle Alley.

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