CHILDREN are scared of using a park due to anti-social behaviour, according to a Flintshire mum.

Kelly Morrison, of Yowley Road, Ewloe, has been concerned about the safety of her sons since a gang of youths terrorised a park next to the home she shares with her two children.

Recent acts of vandalism include damage to the park's tarmac, as well as destruction to a nearby corn field owned by a private farmer - and a fishing line fed across a gate which Kelly fears her sons could have been seriously injured on.

Kelly said: "It's such a shame. I hope the children who are doing it grow up with more respect to people than they already have.

"My children can't play in the garden like they should because people in the park are throwing rubbish and pieces of corn over our hedge, which is right next to the park. The worst I ever found was bottles, which had been thrown over.

"It's such a nice park, but I told them not to play there because it's too dangerous. There's a group of teenagers around 16 to 17 who are there in the evening and no one can control them.

"This has made the summer holidays so much more difficult. I dread them for this reason."

Kelly also said that loud music has played havoc on her ambition of a quiet life. She said: "We hear music all the time from the park, and I've shouted a few times that I'm trying to put my kids to bed. One boy came up to the window, showed his speaker to me and the kids, then turned it up. I was horrified. My children are young and there's a six year old living next door too."

A spokesman for North Wales Police said: "We have had reports of anti-social behaviour in the area where we attended an incident in May."

Kelly fears that her sons will never be able to play in the Yowley Road Park, or that the farmer who owns the corn-field will be able to rectify the damage to his props which has been caused by the vandals.