BURGLARS have broken into a football team’s club house twice in a day.
The first raid at Bury Town’s Ram Meadow headquarters took place around 9.30am on Friday morning with the second break-in thought to have occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning.
In the second break in thieves smashed windows, emptied money from a fruit machine and stole the club safe.
According to club chairman Russell Ward, around �1,000 was stolen in all.
He said: “We are disappointed because we are all volunteers down here trying to run a football club. We do work for the community and run youth teams as well as men’s.
“It’s a bit isolated here but we haven’t had any security problems for at least ten years. The first break in was minor and we may have a witness who saw something. We are working with police to see if anything can be done.”
The disruption caused by the break-in resulted in Saturday’s match being postponed at the town centre ground. Scene-of-crime officers were still carrying out investigations and wouldn’t allow public access to the club house.
Thurlow Nunn League Division One outfit Team Bury, who are effectively the club’s second team, were due to play Saffron Walden Town.
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