Teenage gang suspected of run of break-ins

TEENAGERS are thought to be responsible for a series of break-ins over the weekend.

They broke into Oatlands, Vale Rec Football Club and Country Butchers, which are within a mile-and-a-half of each other.

Two portable buildings at Vale Rec's Corbet Field were targeted on Saturday night. Thieves left empty-handed as no money was kept in them.

Groundsman Dave Le Noury discovered the break-ins on Monday morning.

'We found the lock had been forced open but I don't think anything was stolen,' he said.

'They had picked up a bar from the other shed to get it open.

'We were a bit gutted. It's the fact that we have got to repair it. What's the sense in all this?'

Neighbours alerted police to a break-in at Country Butchers when they saw torches in the window. Last week, Country Bake next door was broken into.