NEIGHBOURS of the former Kings Arms pub in High Street, Wellington, have voiced their concerns over security after youths got into the empty premises.

Five or six teenage boys clambered over the gate next to the Falcon Rural Housing offices in Clifford Terrace on Tuesday of last week just after 5pm and entered the pub through a first floor window.

They left after a Falcon workman shouted at them and when the building was checked the morning after it seemed they had been trying to start a fire.

Wellington PCSO Simon Bramley told the WWN youths had been going into the building since Sunday and the police had asked the pub’s owners to make it secure.

A maintenance man visited the Kings Arms on Thursday morning to board up the windows and Falcon has boarded the back gate.

For the full story see this week’s Wellington Weekly News.