YOBS are vandalising a Gwent leisure centre and abusing staff there just a month after it reopened following a multi-million pound revamp.

Vistors and staff at Pontypool's new Active Living Centre are confronted by vandalism, voyeurism and volleys of abuse from youths, many of whom do not even need to pay to get in, using their library cards.

It is understood that in one sickening incident a teenage boy was caught on CCTV smearing human excrement on a cubicle wall.

The centre was reopened on September 23 after a £7 million refit, which included a refurbished pool and hydro-slides, as well as a revamped sports hall, new caf, fitness suite and new changing rooms.

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