Vandal-hit pool gets major revamp

A riverside park and open-air pool that was threatened with closure after being targeted by vandals is to be given a £398,000 makeover.

CCTV cameras will be introduced to Riverside Park in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, as part of the revamp.

Locals fighting to keep the site on the Thames open helped draw up the plans.

Work on the scheme - to start after the summer season and to end by next summer - will include "vandal-resistant" toilets and new pool changing rooms.

Residents forced a rethink when council chiefs announced plans to close the pool last year because of the damage caused at the site.

Nigel Moor, South Oxfordshire District Council's leisure boss, said: "Now we can get on with the planning and construction to ensure that this unique riverside asset is open, improved for next summer."

The plans are now to go on show to the public.