THIEVES and vandals have been targeting homes and public buildings in and around Bordon and Whitehill during February.

The building site at Quebec Barracks was broken into and chainsaws stolen during the raid ion February 1.

In the early hours of Friday, February 12, damage was done to the steering lock, ignitions and wing mirror of a secured moped parked at the rear of flats in Branson Road, Bordon. At around the same time a Kawasaki motorbike was stolen from Royal Drive, in Bordon, but was later found abandoned.

As a man walked across Lindford Bridge, in Washford Lane, Bordon, on the evening of Monday, February 15, he was assaulted by two men, leaving him with injuries to his arms. When a passer by came to his rescue, the attackers, whom he did not know, ran off.

On Thursday, February 26, some time after midnight, Mill Chase Leisure Centre, in Bordon’s Mill Chase Road, was broken into when a fire exit door was forced open. Locked doors inside the building were also forced and a vending machine moved but no money was taken.

Burglars who broke into a house in Hollywater Road, Bordon, on Tuesday, February 23, fled when they were disturbed by the owners and later, just after midnight, someone broke into the grounds of Hollwater School, in Mill Chase Road, forcing open a shed door, but nothing was taken.

The following night, Wednesday, February 24, in Picketts Hill, Headley, a trespasser cut through the chain and lock on the gates to the Headley Park Hotel and fly tipped their rubbish.