A YOUNG security guard at the Water Works on Aldcliffe Road was badly beaten up in the course of his duties on Tuesday night.

The 25-year-old Morecambe man was thought to have been struck about the legs with a piece of concrete.

He was taken to the RLI with his injuries. Police are investigating the attack.

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