Mum spends Mother's Day cleaning up vile racist graffiti from children's slides

When mum-of-two Heidi Weaver heard there was a load of vile racist graffiti on slides at her local park she "did what she had to do” and cleaned the whole lot off - even though it was Mother’s Day.

Community-spirited Heidi spent her Mother's Day on Sunday down at the public park in Sandbach, Cheshire, scrubbing off the slides to rid them of the damage left by yobs. She leapt into action after hearing from a friend that upset kids were reading the shocking messages and symbols that had been left there by vandals.

Heidi, from Sandbach, said: "A friend phoned me up and said ‘Heidi there's graffiti all over the slides, my daughter who is 6 is reading it’. She said there were other children reading it as well.

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“I felt I needed to do what I had to do really and get it cleaned up." Heidi runs her own cleaning company and so took her cleaning equipment and her two kids down to the park to get to work on Sunday.

She said: "Firstly I had to try and establish what kind of pen or marker had been used. It was a paint pen and it was quite stubborn, but due to it being a children's slide I had to mindful of who uses it so I just used a scourer and soapy water, nothing harsher than that to clean it off.

"When I was at the park other parents came over and said they couldn't believe the messages on there. And they also couldn't believe I'd come down to clean it, but I just feel it needed sorting for the community."

The graffiti had already been reported to local police, and as Heidi works closely with the Sandbach Partnership community group was able to check she was OK to clean off the damage first. Heidi says she was shocked by the racist imagery used in the graffiti and