Televisions go from parked lorry

Thieves stole 30 televisions from a lorry in Shropshire while its driver had been sleeping.

Two men cut open the curtain side panels on a lorry parked up outside an electrical business on Stafford Park, Telford, early on Monday, police said.

Police said they suspected the thieves must have made several trips to take the televisions.

The Slovakian lorry driver eventually woke up and saw the men, who wore masks, running away from his vehicle.

The driver woke up when he heard the men, who were about 6ft tall, making noises from the back of the lorry, just before 0430 GMT.

Thieves cut open the panels at some point between 0100 and 0430 GMT and stole a number of pallets, each containing six Samsung LCD televisions.