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Police in Tuffley are appealing for witnesses after a woman’s walking stick was stolen as she walked along the Epney Road.

The 64-year-old woman was walking along the road between 6pm and 6.10pm on Monday November 9 when two boys on bicycles cycled towards her. As they got close one of them pushed her into a wall and stole her brown/burgundy walking stick.

The boys are described as around 16-years-old and between 5ft 4” and 5ft 6” tall. One of them was wearing dark jeans, a black hooded top with a yellow stripe on the hood and was riding a BMX bike with what looked like a chain wrapped around the handlebars. The other boy was wearing dark hooded top, dark ‘baggy’ jeans and a baseball cap.

Anyone with any information about the incident is asked to contact Gloucestershire Constabulary on 0845 090 1234 quoting incident number 422 of November 9. Alternatively you can call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.