The award-winning Frome community fridge is being closed from lunchtime today (March 17).

It follows another vandalism attack on the community resource, where the glass door was broken for a third time.

But the fridge is not being closed because it was attacked, but because organisers fear the "potential for cross-contamination so that is why its being closed."

The fridge, which has won a European-wide community award for its success, was recently featured on the BBC television programme Countryfile - for a second time.

The resources from the fridge, along with the larder alongside it, will now be taken over by Fair Frome.

Volunteer co-ordinator Terri Pitts told Nub News: " We know it was a group of four 14 year olds who broke the glass with a bike. The fridge and larder is being closed from lunchtime today. All donations and helpers will support Fair Frome."

The fridge, the first of its kind, opened in May 2016, and it was taking food from supermarkets,cafes and shops, which was then free to collect to whoever wanted or needed it. It was estimated to save about one and a half tonnes of food from going into landfill every month.

Terri Pitts told Nub News when it featured on Countryfile " Anyone can access it, it can be people on benefits, people with lots of money in their bank but who want a loaf of bread. It really doesn't matter. It is all about saving food waste.

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"We can use food rather than throwing it away."