{"id":53124,"date":"2025-08-08T14:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53124\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T14:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:50:07","slug":"thieves-steal-mowing-equipment-from-football-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53124\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves steal mowing equipment from football club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of pounds worth of machinery has been stolen from a football club, police have said.<\/p>\n<p>The burglary happened at Appledore Football Club in Devon, between 01:00 and 02:00 BST on 7 August, said officers.<\/p>\n<p>Thieves broke into two sheds and took a white and yellow Cub Cadet ride-on mower, a strimmer, rotavator and a welding plant, Devon and Cornwall Police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police appealed for people to check their CCTV or doorbell cameras for any suspicious activity or vehicles around the club when the break-in took place.<\/p>\n<p>Police said: &#8220;We would also like to hear from anyone who may have been offered the mower or other items for sale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The club said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AppledoreFC1912\/posts\/pfbid02xgQW3Hb1jPJeTjK9f6CdbTxRjm1y5EknGAB59sdZyVf9LKJHxCzSDZqPQmxrxkxFl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>: &#8220;Any detail, no matter how small, could be important.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a big setback for the club, and we&#8217;ll need the support of the community to recover from it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Follow BBC Devon on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcspotlight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DevonBBC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcdevon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>. Send your story ideas to <a href=\"https:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/mailto:spotlight@bbc.co.uk\" data-ylk=\"slk:spotlight@bbc.co.uk;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spotlight@bbc.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related internet links<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.api.bbc.co.uk\/hit.xiti\/?s=598314&amp;p=news.articles.c0r71kd8ke0o.page&amp;x1=%5Burn%3Abbc%3Aoptimo%3Aasset%3Ac0r71kd8ke0o%5D&amp;x4=%5Ben-gb%5D&amp;x5=%5Bhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fc0r71kd8ke0o%5D&amp;x7=%5Barticle%5D&amp;x8=%5Bsynd_nojs_ISAPI%5D&amp;x9=%5BThieves+steal+mowing+equipment+from+football+club%5D&amp;x11=%5B2025-08-08T14%3A32%3A59.746Z%5D&amp;x12=%5B2025-08-08T14%3A32%3A59.746Z%5D&amp;x19=%5Byahoo.north.america%5D\"\/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of pounds worth of machinery has been stolen from a football club, police have said. The burglary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[44331,64,63,596,1119,85],"class_list":["post-53124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-appledore-football-club","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-football-club","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}