Police are working with Dawlish's Gatehouse School to improve security after several cases of trespassing and vandalism.

Over the last few months, intruders have come on to the site outside school hours and caused damage to equipment, broken some seating and lit fires in the fire pit in its Forest School area.

At the end of May, a newly constructed 'bug hotel' was pushed over – something police say made the schoolchildren especially upset.

Dawlish PSCO Michelle Buckley is currently working with the school on proposals to make the site more secure, and police say they're also carrying out high-visibility patrols in the area.

They're asking people living near the school to report any trespassers or incidents of anti-social behaviour using the [L]https://services.devon-cornwall.police.uk/crimereporting/online crime reporting form[.L].

Officers think teenagers are to blame for the damage, and they're asking parents to make sure their children are not among those involved.