Updated 15 April 2026
Two teenagers have been arrested after almost all the windows were smashed on vehicles parked at a storage yard.
Avon and Somerset Police said it was called after the "significant damage" was caused to two minibuses, five single-decker coaches, three double-decker vehicles, and two privately-owned cars at the yard near Midsomer Norton in Somerset.
Staff said five people with their faces covered had been on site when they got there, and a boy in his mid-teens was arrested at the scene before being de-arrested and taken home.
A second boy in his mid-teens was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of causing criminal damage, and remains in police custody.
A further three vintage vehicles were damaged, and will be "very difficult" to repair, police added.
Martin Spiller, managing director of Centurion Travel, said the damage would affect the community as well as his family-run firm.
The company previously operated 28 coaches - 10 of which have been vandalised.
Spiller said the firm now faces costs of "tens of thousands" in repairs and finding replacement vehicles to fulfil its contracts - particularly for schools in Bath and North East Somerset now the Easter break has ended.
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The windows were smashed on Monday night, police said
Spiller said the incident was unlike anything he had seen since the business opened its depot in the Welton area in 1973.
"This is 100 years of a family business - it's just devastating," he said.
"You feel sick, angry, resentful. The clean-up cost for the [broken] glass alone, just to get it out is going to take days, weeks.
"We've never had anything like this. It will be the biggest insurance claim we've ever put in. At the end of the day, somebody's going to have to pay."
Avon and Somerset Police has asked anyone with relevant footage or information to get in touch with the force.
