Gang digs 50ft tunnel to steal cash machine

“Every little helps” says the sign at Tesco where a gang spent months digging a 50ft tunnel to help themselves to the shop’s cash machine.

Spurning the traditional bank robbers’ tools of balaclava and sawn-off shotgun for the shovel and pick, detectives say the complex tunnel structure would have taken serious planning and weeks of laborious digging to carry out the raid in Salford, Greater Manchester.

And police have not ruled out linking this latest tunnel raid to two others in the area by the raiders, dubbed the Mole in the Wall gang.