TRAVELLERS who settled on a playing field have spoiled a weekend of football for youngsters.
Matches for junior players had to be cancelled after the travellers set up camp on the playing field on St. Asaph Avenue, Kinmel Bay, early on Saturday morning.
Bill Darwin, chairman of the Kinmel Bay and Towyn Community Association, said the travellers had damaged property on the playing field, as well as disrupting the junior side’s matches.
He said: “These people came on Saturday morning disrupting the children's games for the weekend and were totally unsympathetic to the disruption they were causing.
“In the two days they have been here they have cut off four locks and chains from the entrance and threatened to take off the gate completely.
Friendly matches for local under 16s sides had to be cancelled, while a junior girls football fixture against a side travelling from Wrexham had to be moved to another pitch.
Mr Darwin said the travellers had been intimidating and abusive and had used the field as a toilet.
“It will now cost time and money to move them off the field which could be out of action for weeks.
The ground hosts football matches and other sporting events for the Kinmel Bay community and could be out of action for weeks according to Mr Darwin.
A spokesperson from Conwy Borough Council said they were in the process of serving the people on the site with a notice to leave the site.