Dawlish News

A frightened pensioner had an anxious start to Father's Day after witnessing thieves stealing money from a car park ticket machine.

Anne James was up at 3am yesterday to make a special Father's Day meal when she saw thieves breaking into the machines in Dawlish Warren.But after realising what was going on Mrs James's first anxious thought was to turn off the lights to make sure the criminals could not see her.

The 74-year-old said: "I was doing the vegetables and I heard an odd sort of noise. I lifted my venetian curtain and looked and there were all these sparks going and a car.