INTERNET filth has once more been directed at an innocent York village website.

Earlier this year the Evening Press reported how the public message board on Copmanthorpe Parish Council's website had been targeted by web porn perverts.

Now an independently-run website in the neighbouring village of Bishopthorpe has also been targeted by postings for internet sites - from gambling to porn.

"It's not a worry, it's just annoying," said local resident Martin Dudley, who contributed to setting up the site and now helps run it.

"I think it's outrageous, it's really sad.

"It puts people off using the internet. It's unfair on elderly users. They don't like it. They get quite put off."

The website has been regularly targeted by unsuitable postings from the internet, both on its forum and on the site itself, which is open to user contributions.

Earlier this month, one homosexual porn site had posted itself on to the website's message forum - but was quickly removed by eagle-eyed site monitors who live locally.

Now website organisers hope new software might help screen out unwelcome "spam" so Bishopthorpe residents can use their local site unhampered by intrusion from internet filth merchants.

Andrew Dunn, another local resident who helped set up the website, said: "It's incredibly annoying and frustrating - but it's a fact of modern life. It's very difficult to see what we or anyone else could do about it."

Copanthorpe's website was targeted when its message board suddenly had a web link posted on it to a grim pornography site advertising "reality mature sex" with "older women".

The parish council was forced temporarily to shut down the forum, which is now run and monitored by a local IT expert.

Mike Irwin, chairman of Copmanthorpe Parish Council, said: "I'm sympathetic to Bishopthorpe's problem. I wouldn't want any family in the village to come to the parish council web page to post a message and find there's a link to something unpleasant.

"We took the necessary action that was necessary at the time. What the solution to their problem is, I'm not sure."

Updated: 10:18 Thursday, October 27, 2005