{"id":666240,"date":"2026-01-01T05:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/666240\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T05:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:59:13","slug":"warning-for-cricket-clubs-after-attempted-break-in-at-wellingtons-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/666240\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning for cricket clubs after attempted break in at Wellington&#8217;s ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7be21c9a-5efb-442f-b2b5-b7fd994f7f3c-thumbnail.jpeg\" class=\"fr-embedded gd-embedded fr-draggable\" title=\"Shropshire Star Morning Update Wednesday 31 December, 2025\" alignment=\"center\" isinline=\"False\"\/>Club secretary Dave Ross said they tried to get into the equipment sheds but couldn&#8217;t, \u00a0then smashed their way into the pavilion.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThey\u2019ve made a mess but got very little before they were scared off by the police arriving.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/c1828abb-a560-46a5-b2f9-1c8689a534ac.jpg\"   alt=\"Thieves tried to break into Wellington CC over the festive period\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Thieves tried to break into Wellington CC over the festive period<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey smashed a window and door, it could have been much worse. The alarms did their job, alerting the police who arrived on the scene and nearly caught them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have them on CCTV and will share in due course. So a warning for any other clubs in the area to be aware that these people are about at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wellington, who won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shropshirecricketleague.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shropshire Country Cricket League<\/a>&#8216;s Premier Division this year play at Haygate Road.<\/p>\n<p>Cricket Shropshire Lead Officer Steve Reese said: \u201cIt\u2019s a timely reminder to all cricket clubs to be aware and take precautions so we can stop this sort of thing from happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmercia.police.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Mercia Police<\/a> have been contacted for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Club secretary Dave Ross said they tried to get into the equipment sheds but couldn&#8217;t, \u00a0then smashed their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,188,379,12,79,18713,16,15,31017],"class_list":{"0":"post-666240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-local-hubs","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-telford","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wellington"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115818316755290135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}