VANDALS have struck at Lydney’s historic St Mary’s railway footbridge twice in a month only weeks after a major restoration job.

But the owners, the volunteer run Dean Forest Railway, say nothing will stand in the way of the official reopening of the bridge on Saturday next week (March 9).

The Grade II listed bridge was hit by graffiti vandals overnight on February 17 during in a spate of damage that stretched all the way to the Bathurst Park bandstand and on to Hams Road.

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