Police are hunting thieves and vandals who struck in Rutland.
A driver who left his truck to make a delivery returned to find the vehicle, worth £5,000, had been stolen.
The white Ford Iveco tipper truck was making a delivery in North Street West, Uppingham, at 1.15pm on Tuesday, September 30. When the drive
r returned 15 minutes later it had been stolen.
Police would not say whether the vehicle had been locked.
A man’s two-piece suit was taken by burglars who broke into a house in Cottesmore.
Intruders forced their way into the home on Westland Road through a ground floor back window sometime between Monday, September 29, and Thursday last week and stole about £100 in loose change and a fawn Gorton suit.
Vandals smashed the front window of Oakham Tile Showroom in Church Street between 11.55pm on Saturday and 11am the following morning, causing £50 damage.
A door and a window were damaged by thieves who attempted to break into an Uppingham betting shop at the weekend.
Someone tried to get in through the back of the Nightwood shop in North Street East between 6.20pm on Saturday, October 4 and 11am the following morning.
A boiler worth £650 was stolen from a housing development in Lyddington between Tuesday, September 9, and Wednesday, October 1. The Worcester boiler was due to be fitted to a home in Main Street.
Tyres of a car parked in Newtown Crescent were vandalised between 6.30pm on Saturday, October 4 and 10.30am the following day. Damage is estimated at £90.
About £50 of lead was stolen from the extension of a home in Main Street, Thorpe-by-Water between 4pm on Wednesday, October 1 and 7pm the following evening.
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