A GANG of yobs piled up wheeled bins and torched them THREE times in Sheepridge last night.

The group of mindless thugs, believed to be in their late teens or early twenties, grabbed the bins, which people had put out for collection this morning,  before stacking them up in a huge bonfire and then lit their pyre at around 12.30am.

Fire crews from Huddersfield were called to the scene on Sheepridge Grove after residents spotted the blaze.

But moments after putting out the toxic fire and as they were about to leave, the fire crews spotted the yobs repeating their original actions.

Fire crews approached the group who had lit their latest bonfire but the gang hurled foul-mouthed abuse at them.

The police were called but the group, who wore scarves to cover their faces, ran off before they arrived.

After extinguishing the fire for a second time, firefighters returned to base, only to be called out an hour later to deal with a third pile of wheeled bins which had been torched.