THE BOSSES of a dairy were left cheesed off when thieves stole eight tons of Lancashire and Cheshire cheeses worth £20,000.

The break-in took place at Wolfen Mill Dairy, Goose Lane, Chipping, after an alarm failed to go off.

More than £7,500 worth of leather jackets and sportswear were stolen when Burton's clothes shop in Accrington's Arndale Centre was raided for the second time in three weeks.

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