Theft of charity donation boxes 'really cruel'

BOSSES at a children's charity and visitor centre have described the alleged theft of two charity boxes by masked men as "cruel".

- DANIEL HALL Reporter [e-mail]

On Monday morning, two men are reported to have entered Seven Stories in the Ouseburn Valley and took a donation box from the front desk and another from outside their Elmer exhibition. Staff were understandably left shaken by the incident, which bosses say has never happened before.

It is not known how much money was in the boxes, but the charity had just come off a busy Easter holidays. Georgie Hume, communications executive at Seven Stories, said: "Obviously it's a period of high footfall and generous visitors, but we don't know exactly how much there was between them."