WATCH: Lanarkshire after-school club's vital vehicles smashed up by heartless vandals twice in a fortnight

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The sickened owners of a Lanarkshire after-school club have slammed the callous culprits responsible for smashing up two of their minibuses within a fortnight.Clydesdale After School Care in Coatbridge have been forced to use contractors to deliver services to the community after their vital vehicles were targeted by vandals.In one astonishing incident on the evening of September 2, youths were captured on film battering one minibus with hammers in a leisure centre car park.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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It is not believed that the two attacks are linked.The firm, who look after more than 100 schoolkids in Lanarkshire every day, have been forced to cough up for repairs and to hire buses from private contractors.Michelle Deakin, the company director, said the "ridiculous" crimes had cost the company roughly £1000.Michelle, 42, who runs the firm with husband David, said: "When the first bus was damaged, we got a phone call about 9.15pm from the police to say that our minibus had been vandalised in Coatbridge, at the Time Capsule, where we operate