Thieves drove away a dumper truck from a Westcliff building site in the middle of the night.

The £9,000 Peljob dumper was taken from the McAlpine site at the junction of Hamlet Court Road and London Road.

It had been left locked and with the shovel part of a digger in the back of it in an attempt to hold it down.

Published Wednesday, February 5, 2003

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