Audacious thieves have ram-raided two stores in Haworth in the last four months.

Police have not linked the two incidents but shopkeepers have been shocked by the crimes in the Bronte village.

The front of the Haworth Spar store was demolished when raiders drove a Nissan car through the glass shop front. They removed a security bollard from outside the shop which had been installed to prevent ram-raiding.

They escaped in a second car, believed to be a Ford Sierra, after filling two bin liners with tobacco and alcohol.

Police have described them as four large men, all clothed in black, with black woollen hats and masks. It is the third raid on the shop since August last year.

Ram-raiders struck earlier this year in Haworth in an attack on the Edinburgh Woollen Mill shop in North Street, almost directly opposite the village police station.

Anyone with any information about the raids should call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

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