DETERMINED volunteers have re-opened a vandalised community club and vowed: “We will not be beaten.”

Six weeks ago a mob of looters and thugs left Sheepridge’s Top Club smashed up and a pool player beaten up in hospital.

The incident came as a 30-strong gang of troublemakers engaged in copy cat violence following the riots in London, Birmingham and Manchester.

The gang ransacked the premises and then allegedly turned on a lone pool player who was outside having a cigarette, assaulting him and robbing him of his phone.

The night of violence last month left the popular club in a state of disrepair after the rampaging mob smashed every single window and ripped the fruit machines from the bar – stealing £700 in the process.

But the community rallied round to clean up the mess and on Saturday the club – formerly known as the Deighton and Sheepridge Conservative WMC – relaunched with a new name and a new staff.

Club secretary, Samantha Morrison, said they’d been forced to get a new bar manager as the old one had been too scared to come back.

She said: “We decided to have a relaunch to let everyone know that we’re back and we’re not going to be beaten.