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More than £20,000 worth of meat was stolen from a Huntingdon farm shop right before Christmas.

Police were called just before 8am this morning (December 24) with reports of a theft at Johnsons of Old Hurst in Church Street, Old Hurst.

Hundreds of turkeys, ribs of beef and lamb worth more than £20,000 had been taken from the shop.

Johnsons of Old Hurst, opened in 1899, and is a farm shop, butchers and tea room.

Shop owner Andy Johnson told the BBC that thieves made off with about half of the 300 orders in the shop.

He said that they are contacting friends and fellow farm shops to make sure everyone will have a Christmas dinner, the BBC reported.

PC Poppy McCullagh said: “This mindless act will have a devastating effect on the business and leave hundreds of families without their turkey dinner this Christmas.

“I am appealing to anyone with information, or who may be offered a meat for sale, to contact us.”

Anyone with information should call police on 101 and quote incident 72 of 24 December.

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