Police are investigating after bronze animal statues were stolen from a sculpture studio in Somercotes.

Officers were alerted to a break-in at a business on Nottingham Road at about 22:20 GMT on 30 December.

In an appeal issued on Tuesday, Derbyshire Police said CCTV footage “shows the offenders arriving in a car”, stealing a number of objects and leaving, before returning in a flatbed van to take away more items.

A bronze statue of a horse and two statues of dogs were among those taken, the force added.