Thieves went to great lengths to steal an empty wooden shed from an Oxford car sales site.

John White, 67, owner of White's Cars in Hollow Way, Cowley, said to steal it, the thieves had cut a 10ft hole in a chain link fence.

Mr White said they then must have dismantled the £200 shed and passed the pieces through the hole in the fence to make off with it. He added the site had been targeted in the past, with thieves taking cars and vehicle parts, but this latest theft seemed pointless.

"We have lost quite a lot of stuff over the years but this takes the biscuit," he said.