Burglars strike at Hawes food firms (From The Westmorland Gazette)

Burglars strike at Hawes food firms

6:20pm Friday 11th March 2011 in Hawes news

Cheese and meat products worth over £1,000 have been stolen from the Ribblesdale Cheese Company on the Upper Wensleydale Business Park in Hawes and The Good Life business located next door.

The burglars stole over £500 worth of speciality cheeses from Ribblesdale Cheese including 18 blocks of sheep’s milk cheese in a mixture of 2kg and 2.2kg weights, 4kg of blue goat’s cheese and three rounds of superior goat’s cheese.

Some of the cheese is marked with batch number D25 and dated April 2009.

They also stole a camera, two laptops and cash.

Next door at The Good Life, around £620 worth of food was stolen including 11 5kg blocks of cheddar and Wensleydale cheese labelled as Karron Lodge.

Burgers, pies, chicken nuggets and sausage rolls were also taken as well as 13 large containers of instant coffee, bags and tins of dog food and confectionery.

Namaste earrings, necklaces and bracelets worth around £500 were also taken between 5.30pm on Saturday and 7.30am on Sunday.