ANGRY newsagent Linda Knight hit out this week at the teenage thieves who stole her delivery boy's prized bike.

Christopher Jolley was delivering newspapers on Sunday in Biddulph when two boys snatched his £270 bicycle from under his nose

The 15-year-old had owned the bike for just five months, and was devastated by the theft.

He will now have to walk his paper round, and Mrs Knight, who owns Brown Lees Post Office and Newsagents, urged the thieves to return the bike to her shop.

"Christopher has worked for me for 12 months, and I was really annoyed someone could come along and take his bike," she said.

"He had left it at the top of a driveway to deliver a paper, and was devastated.

"The boys who took it are obviously local, and I would ask them to return it to my shop.

"If a child brings a new bike home their parents should ask them where they got it."

Christopher was delivering to a house in Lotus Avenue, Brown Lees, at 7.50am, when the black and red Shogun Tucano was snatched.

He saw two white teenage boys, believed to be about 13 years old, running off with the bike.

Biddulph police urged delivery boys and girls to keep their bikes with them, and anyone who knows anything about the theft should ring 01782-522002.

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