Maldon: Crooks steal Poppy Appeal box as Maldon honours war dead (From Maldon and Burnham Standard)
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Maldon: Crooks steal Poppy Appeal box as Maldon honours war dead
9:10am Wednesday 14th November 2012 in Local News By Emma Robinson
Vivien Footner, whose shop was targeted by the burglars.
Burglars have been branded "disgusting" after stealing a Poppy Appeal charity box from a shop in Maldon's High Street.
The Royal British Legion collection box was taken during a burglary at the Flower Patch florist just days before Armistice Day.
The callous thieves also took a charity box for Essex Air Ambulance and the till drawer, which contained just £25 in cash.
They smashed their way through a back window in the theft which occurred overnight between Wednesday and Thursday last week, causing £300 worth of damage.
Albert Kilby, vice-president of the Maldon, Heybridge and District British Legion, called the act “absolutely disgusting”.
He said: “It is completely degrading and disrespectful."
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