Thieves used a shovel/bulldozer-type vehicle stolen from a nearby quarry in a failed bid to rip the cash machine from the wall of Carlisles’ filling station in Ballynahinch, Co Down, at about 5.30am on Monday.

Thieves tricked their way into a pensioner’s home in Belfast before robbing her, police revealed tonight.

Thieves hijacked an armoured van from the KLM cargo ramp at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport today and escaped with millions of euro in diamonds and jewellery.

Thieves broke into the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and stole two paintings overnight.