Eggs and money stolen from boy's roadside stall

The family of a six-year-old boy who began selling eggs from a stall near their farm have been left shocked after money from the "honesty box" went missing.

Sam collects eggs from the hen coops himself, washes them and places them on the roadside stall in Malton, North Yorkshire.

An amount of cash and a number of eggs were then taken, prompting his mum Emma to post about the theft on a local Facebook group.

"It is just some eggs and it was only pounds, but it's still not nice to feel like people could do that," she said.

"You think that you live in a really nice area and have a really nice community around you.

"It was bad for Sam more than anything else."

An anonymous person who saw the post then made a donation to the family.

"We've put eggs back out and luckily, all have gone and been paid for."

The family's 13 chickens are all rescue birds from the Hens Trust that they rehomed on the farm.

They decided to sell the surplus eggs after realising they had too many. The proceeds are given to Sam as pocket money.

The family plan to sell duck eggs from the stall when their birds start to lay.

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