Brazen thieves stole equipment from a breast cancer screening site in Lanarkshire.

The generator and trailer were taken approximately at 10pm on Monday, November 27, from the breast cancer screening facility at the car park of Wishaw Sports Centre, on Alexander Street.

This was the second similar incident after a Compare air compressor was stolen from premises on Glasgow Road, between 6pm on Thursday, November 23 and 8am on Friday, November 24.  Wishaw.

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Both items are large and would have required to have been towed using another vehicle, police said.

Officers launched an investigation and are asking anyone with information to get in touch with them by calling 101 and quoting reference number 0502 of Tuesday, November 28.