A teenage girl kept a 90-year-old woman in Bourne Avenue, Salisbury, talking while a boy climbed in through a window and stole more than �100.

In Shrewton two men called at the home of an elderly, partially-sighted woman claiming to be water board officials.

They demanded �50 for wasted water but fled when the woman said she was going to call her daughter.

"Police continue to urge caution over any unexpected visitor to the house," said a spokesman for Wiltshire Police.