BARGAIN hunters at Tyldesley Salvation Army charity shop were disappointed to find it closed late on Friday morning.

Changeover volunteers arrived at lunchtime to find a note on the counter from the morning helper stating that she had had to lock up and leave because her bag had been stolen from under the counter.

The scumbags of society strike again.

It is believed a young woman customer asked the lone volunteer for assistance at the far side of the shop. When she went over a male accomplice took his chance to snatch the shopping bag.

Only a month before another volunteer discovered her purse had vanished in the same way.

For goodness sake have these people no morals? Obviously not if they can perpetrate such upset by robbing elderly women who give their time freely to raise money for an organisation that is renown worldwide for helping the downtrodden and lost in society.

I only hope that the nearby CCTV cameras were in operation and that the heartless, selfish couple can be identified carrying off their ill gotten bounty along Elliott Street.

Charity shops are becoming a real target for thieves, who patently feel that because people give unwanted clothes and bric-a-brac that they have the right to take them for nothing.

They forget that many of these shops have to find in the region of £500 a week in rent before they start making money for their causes!