WANBOROUGH residents woke up to find graffiti scrawled across garages, walls and road signs.

Mother Sarah Jackson was shocked to find the damage as she walked her daughter Victoria to Wanborough Primary School.

Sarah, 35, who has lived in the village all her life, said: "I walked through Wanborough to pick up my daughter after school on Tuesday night, and everything was normal.

"But when I made the same trip yesterday morning there was graffiti everywhere.

"It was on garages at Wild Acre, on road signs and on the path leading to the school.

"I haven't seen any graffiti here before. It's not something that happens in the village."

Wanborough Primary School headteacher Chris Davis confirmed the school was a victim of the spree.

"As I was driving in to the school, before I arrived, I noticed one of the road signs had been sprayed over," he said.

"And then when I drove into the car park I saw they had sprayed inside the school grounds too."

The vandals had painted on a bike shed and a wall.

Mr Davis said the tag "Flow" can be clearly seen.

"It has certainly been a talking point and we are all very annoyed it has happened," he said.

He said the damage to the bike shed was all the more irritating because the Parent Teacher Association had contributed money to its construction.

"The PTA supported the project a few years ago so this is a bit of a kick in the teeth," he said.

"One of our parents very kindly offered to clean it off, but I will be contacting the police and checking through our CCTV tapes to see if we can identify the culprits first.

"People are annoyed because generally speaking we're quite closeted from the anti-social behaviour of the town centre."

Bill Suter, the chairman of Wanborough Parish Council, said: "It certainly is surprising to see this sort of thing in the village.

"We have isolated incidents which flare up but nothing concentrated."

The graffiti attack comes a week after Swindon Council launched a campaign to track down the town centre's most prolific taggers.

Rewards of £100 are being offered in the latest bid to catch the vandals, who are blighting walls, doors, fences and signs with their unsightly scrawl.

Swindon Council, in partnership with Swindon police, town centre management and Swindon Commercial Services, is putting up the rewards for people who provide evidence leading to the conviction of any of the six most wanted.

A Swindon police spokesman said it did not appear that the Wroughton graffiti had been reported yet.