AN industrial estate in Barnsley is being targeted by thieves who break into vehicles to steal any items left in them.

The latest burglary happened two weeks ago when staff at Osborne Technologies in Wortley Court, Fall Bank Industrial Estate, Dodworth, arrived in the morning to discover 12 vans had been broken into and windows at the premises broken.

Stolen items and equipment included a number of laptops.

Company owner Tom Osborne said it was the second time his business had fallen victim to thieves in recent weeks.

And he explained that other firms with units on the industrial estate had also been targeted.

Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle