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The nursery at Hunters Garden Centre in Surrey is looking a lot less festive following the theft of approximately 50 Christmas trees early Wednesday morning.

Owner Miles Hunter says thieves made off with 50 noble firs, cleaning out his inventory, during an early morning heist at his East Newton garden centre.

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“Somebody jumped over our fence, dragged the trees over the fence and onto our neighbour’s property and then drove away,” Hunter said. “We know they dragged then because of the trail of needles.”

Hunter says the tree theft appeared to be well planned.

“I don’t think we’ve had more than one or two trees at a time stolen before. It was obviously a coordinated and organized effort. They had to have a fairly decent size vehicle to move this many trees. You wouldn’t do this in the back of your pickup,” he said.

There were no witnesses and the thieves managed to avoid security cameras.