Police are appealing for the public's help in tracing a gang of yobs who vandalised a village church.

The group of about six teenage girls and boys were seen hanging around the parish church in Panfield, near Braintree, just after 9pm on Wednesday.

A witness heard breaking glass and when he went to investigate, he found a framed prayer had been pulled off a pillar inside the church and broken.

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Published Friday, December 31, 2004

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