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Convenience store broken into overnight

Richard PriceWest Midlands
News imageBBC The entrance to a convenience store, with its shutters down. There is police tape over a paved area in front of the store.BBC
Police said they were alerted to the burglary in the early hours of Friday morning

Burglars targeted a convenience store in the Staffordshire Moorlands overnight, snatching cash and loading stolen goods into a car.

The Staffordshire force said officers were alerted at about 02:20 GMT to a break-in at the Morrisons Daily on High Lane in Brown Edge, which is referred to locally as "Keith's shop".

Police said the offenders forced their way into the premises, and added that a man wearing a balaclava was seen loading goods into the boot of a dark-coloured vehicle.

The break-in follows two incidents in north Staffordshire in January in which cash machines were ripped from supermarkets.

On Friday, the suspects had left the area before officers arrived, a force spokesperson said.

News imageThe entrance to a convenience store, with its shutters down. There is police tape over a paved area in front of the store and two police vehicles parked on the road in front of the shop.
The store remains closed on Friday while forensics officers investigate

The store remained closed on Friday while forensic work and inquiries continued.

Anyone with any information was urged to contact police.

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