PROTESTERS fighting a plan for an aerial adventure course in Glasgow today condemned vandals who wrecked a similar site.

PROTESTERS fighting a plan for an aerial adventure course in Glasgow today condemned vandals who wrecked a similar site.

The Go Ape adventure park at Aberfoyle was targeted by people who sawed through steel cables on a 150ft-high zip slide.

The Perthshire site has been forced to close since the weekend incident just days after permission was given for a new site at Glasgow's Pollok Park It is thought those behind the vandalism back a campaign against the controversial plans . FFP - believed to stand for Freedom For Pollok - was sprayed on signs at Aberfoyle.

Campaigner Bill Fraser, spokesman for Save Pollok Park, said: "We condemn vandalism of any sort, particularly if it could put lives at risk. We have never campaigned against Go Ape as an activity, just its location which we think is unsuitable.

"People who carry out such violent acts have no place in our campaign."

Central Scotland Police have launched an investigation.

The vandals are thought to have struck at night when the park was closed - the second time in a month that it has been targeted.

Go Ape boss Tristan Mayhew apologised for any inconvience to customers.

The damage was discovered when staff carried out a routine inspection and repairs are now under way.

Just last week campaigners in Glasgow vowed to take legal action in an attempt to stop Go Ape going ahead at Pollok Park.

Their warning came after the Scottish Government announced it would not intervene in the saga.

An earlier decision by the council to grant permission had been referred to ministers, with campaigners hoping that would at least result in a public inquiry.

But the decision to take no action clears the way for Glasgow City Council to plough ahead with the plan for rope bridges, ladders and zip lines from trees in the park's North Wood.

Protest group Save Pollok Park, which collected 5000 names on a petition, said it would got to courts to get the decision overturned.

Even constituency MSP Nicola Sturgeon, who is the Deputy First Minister, vowed to double her efforts to have the plan stopped.

Ministers could have chosen to "call in" the application which could have resulted in a public inquiry and, ultimately, the plan being kicked out.

But instead they passed it back to the council, raising no objections.