South Normanton cocoa crooks steal chocolate hoard

It was chocs away for a lorry load of sweet treats as a gang of crooks made off with three pallets of Galaxy chocolate bars.

A lorry driver was asleep in his cab while parked up in High View Road, South Normanton, this morning (Thursday, February 19) when he was awoken some time between midnight and 12.20am.

He got out of his cab to see eight men running away with the chocolate hoard.

Anyone with information is asked to call the police on 101.