HUNDREDS of pounds worth of scrap metal has been snatched in Kirkby Stephen.

Cumbria Police said a number of items to the value of £300 were stolen from the compound on Hobson's Lane.

The metal was taken sometime between April 2 and yesterday (April 7).

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