POLICE are appealing for information after a school and the parish council offices in Headley were targeted by thieves.

The Holme Primary School was burgled between 6pm last Tuesday and 7.30am last Wednesday.

Wendy Carter, The Holme School's finance officer, said that when staff arrived last Wednesday morning they discovered "a gaping hole" in the wall and their locked safe missing.

What remains a mystery is how the thieves got in. Mrs Carter said that although the school's alarm company had confirmed it was set, it had not been triggered by the break in.

She said the window had been removed from its frame from the inside, indicating the burglars had come through a hole they made in the side of the building.

"The mess was on the inside, not the outside," she said. "They could have taken the cladding off the outside. The hole was big enough for a small adult to fit through."

And during the night last Thursday, thieves broke into Headley Parish Council's offices on Arford Road by forcing the front door and damaging the lock and the frame. They fled with more than £80 cash.