Article: Plea to catch youths in purge on graffiti.

RESIDENTS in a Sheffield suburb are being asked to help ensure the writing is on the wall for vandals responsible for a spate of graffiti attacks.

Fed-up Coun John Hesketh, police, and local traders plan to crackdown on the culprits.

But they today appealed for help to ensure vandals who tag themselves 'MEAK', 'ESK', 'DANE', 'SEB', 'KOMP 142' SPACE', 'PHICE' or 'PHAR' and 'TOAST 142' are brought to book.

Coun Hesketh today slammed the graffiti as a blight on the area and said residents are fed up of the mess.

He said: "This mess makes Crookes look shabby and rundown. Residents hate it and shopkeepers complain that it affects their ...

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