Vandals spray "Bobby Sands" on church wall ahead of Orange walk Vandals have sprayed sectarian graffiti on the wall outside a church in Lanarkshire ahead of an Orange Walk on Saturday. The words "Bobby Sands" were scrawled on the structure at the Middle Church in Bank Street in Coatbridge on Thursday night. The house of worship is a Church of Scotland parish and is part of the Presbytery of Hamilton. Bobby Sands was an IRA paramilitary who died in a hunger strike in HM Prison Maze in County Down, Northern Ireland in 1981. Middle Church sits on the route of an Orange walk which will proceed through Coatbridge on Saturday. The march, which is being organised by the County Grand Lodge of Central Scotland, is expected to draw 10,000 people to Drumpellier Park for the beginning of the procession through the town. A spokeswoman for North Lanarkshire Council said the vandalism was discovered on Friday morning by local authority clean-up workers. She said: "Our teams had been out and about and saw it this morning and they took it upon themselves to clean it up. They logged it at 8.15am and they logged it as sectarian. She added that the team, which operates as part of the council's "Graffiti Hit Squad," recorded incidents on mobile phone cameras as standard procedure. The footage will be reviewed and passed onto Police Scotland, she said. A spokeswoman for Police Scotland confirmed enquiries were ongoing into reports of vandalism in Bank Street and others in the town's Main Street. A Church of Scotland spokesperson said: "We are saddened that anyone feels that this is the best way to express themselves. The Church of Scotland is committed to building a Scotland in which attacks of this nature are a thing of the past.