POLICE have launched an appeal after a dog was stolen on a street near a shopping outlet.

Officers from West Yorkshire Police's Wildlife & Rural Crime Team said a Yorkshire Terrier was stolen from Carr Lane, in Castleford, between 8.30pm and 9.30pm on Friday evening.

The road is just behind the Junction 32 shopping outlet and Xscape.

If you have any information that could help police, you should call them on 101, or using the contact options on the West Yorkshire Police website.

You should quote crime reference number: 13210398884.