Thieves cut through a locked shipping container to steal three motorbikes and gear worth £6,000 from the Essex Motorcycle Training Club in the early hours of yesterday.

Theft victim - Alf Viccary at the motorbike track Picture: LUAN MARSHALL

The owner of the Lower Dunton Road, Basildon, club Alf Viccary, said the club had been struck in similar circumstances ten times in the last two years.

He said: "I'm now seriously considering closing the club."

Police were probing the theft of 80cc, 125cc and 600cc bikes, air compressors and tools.

Published Thursday, April 17, 2003

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