A £1,000 fountain in the shape of a Grecian woman was among items stolen in a garden thefts blitz.

The 6ft concrete fountain was taken from a front garden in Stourport early on Thursday, July 20. Youths with a dark coloured van were seen acting suspiciously in the area at the same time.

Garden furniture was taken from a locked summer house at Areley Kings the next night. Between Monday and Tuesday last week fishing tackle was stolen after a shed door was forced in Queen Elizabeth Road, Kidderminster.

Garden ornaments and hanging baskets have also been taken in Kidderminster's Oldington and Foley Park areas.

Police are warning householders to have expensive tools and other property coded so it can be traced back if found.