Police to advise church

POLICE will visit a Happy Valley church to give advice following two burglaries within two weeks.

The St Margaret's Church in Broadwood Road was burgled on September 25, although a staff member said the case was not reported because it was 'no big deal'.

But they alerted police yesterday after discovering between $4,000 and $6,000 had been stolen from donation boxes.

A church staff member said no one watched the church at night.

Police suspect the burglar had posed as a church-goer and stayed behind after the last Sunday service at 6.30 pm. The thief is believed to have used a spike to prise open the donation boxes.