WOODEN garden furniture made from cut logs was stolen from a restaurant patio area.

Thieves struck outside Campions Restaurant, in Cuerdale Lane, Samlesbury, at around 11.30pm on Friday, April 21.

The thief used a scruffy blue Mercedes 300 series box van with defective brake lights. A similar vehicle was seen earlier in the car park of the New Hall Tavern, opposite the restaurant.

The occupants were a man in his mid-40s, 5ft 10ins tall, of slight build and with short dark hair and another, well-dressed, man.