This happened on Friday. Sometime during the day (in broad daylight) a group of men rushed the Siddons News shop on the corner of Siddons and Shipman Rd.

They smashed the glass, cut off the CCTV, and stole the cash register. No one was hurt. The woman who ownes the store ran and hid, thank God.

Siddons News now has a new door and and a new cash register--and are still trading (they have been invaluable to me for those days when you need milk, toilet paper etc...)

I thought I would post this, so other business know of incidents. This does seem like a professional operation. But it seems strange that such an effort would have been acted upon to steal a small corner shop's till--which probably wouldn't have had more than ?200 in it.

I'm thinking this was some sort of 'trial run' for something bigger. Hopefully the police are the case.