ANGRY businessman Ian Powis is considering shutting up shop and taking his trade elsewhere after a series of vandal attacks.

His company, Always in Our Thoughts, a memorial headstone company, has suffered endless damage since it opened a year ago.

Vandals used bricks to destroy the company's 8ft plastic advertising sign at the front of the building, in High Street, Daubhill.

Metal security doors were also badly damaged.

Mr Powis is now considering moving his business elsewhere in Bolton. He said vandals have targeted the building 10 times in the past year, causing more than £1,000 worth of damage.

Vandals have daubed graffiti over the walls, smashed stone advertising hoardings and, in one case, removed all of the company's door handles.

Mr Powis, aged 33, from Settle Street, Bolton, said: "I arrive at work to find the place in chaos.

"They are not breaking into the building, just causing plenty of damage and a real mess. I do not want to carry on here like this.

"I work for myself and, at the end of the day, it is only a small firm so £1,000 is an awful lot of money.

"These vandals are really affecting my business. I came in the other day to find the sign costing £300 had been smashed.

"There were bricks everywhere and the roller-shutter doors had been damaged and spray-painted."

Mr Powis said he had reported the incidents to police. "Over the past year we have had more than ten separate cases of vandalism -- and things don't seem to be getting any better. I am looking to get a shop elsewhere."

A police spokesman said the attacks were being investigated.