ACKERS Pit has been targeted again this winter by vandals who have thrown a bench and wheelie bin full of rubbish into the water.

Mike Monks, of Stockton Heath Angling Club, said that vandals target the pit each year when the water freezes over and throw anything at it to crack the ice.

When the ice melts, the rubbish sinks through the water and to the bottom of the pit and this year the attack has been the worst yet.

Anglers have been forced to wade in and remove the rubbish from the pit themselves.

Mike said: "I saw a wheelie bin myself last Tuesday and got that out because it was within reach from the side but we know more bins have gone in.

"When these sort of things happen somebody must see it and hear it because it happens in the night."