Arsonists have struck at a popular Earley play area.
Sometime overnight on Saturday, January 12 into Sunday, January 13, the firebugs moved wheelie bins from the Maiden Place shops to a pagoda erected in the neighbouring events field.
It appears they emptied the bins, placing cardboard boxes and pallets on the concrete floor of the pagoda before setting light to the resulting mess.
One of the two industrial wheelie bins has also had a lid broken, and parts of it have melted.
There are also broken beer bottles with sharp edges littering the area.
Full details of the incident have yet to emerge, however some customers of the restaurants in Maiden Place have said they would have smelt burning when they left the area just after 11pm on the Saturday night.
There has also been reports of a tree being set on fire but there was no evidence of this when The Wokingham Paper visited the scene.
The firebugs are just another incident in an ongoing round of vandalism across the borough at the moment.
Since Christmas, The Wokingham Paper has reported on Wokingham town’s Christmas tree being vandalised several times, shop windows being broken or splayed with paint, car windscreens being smashed and a woman had cream poured on her while shopping in Boots.
If you have been a victim of vandalism, The Wokingham Paper encourages you to report it to Thames Valley Police.