£9,000 oil theft (From Daily Echo)
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Test Valley fuel tank security alert after £9,000 oil theft in latest raid near Stockbridge
12:10pm Wednesday 6th February 2013 in News
£9,000 oil theft
FUEL thieves have struck again in the Test Valley.
This time they got away with heating oil worth about £9,000 after targeting a storage tank at Up Somborne near Stockbridge.
Police investigating the theft, which happened between 5pm on January 31 and 2.30pm on February 1, say it is the latest in a spate of thefts involving domestic heating oil.
Raiders also targeted an address at Furzedown Road in King’s Somborne between 10am on January 29 and 7am the following morning and got away with around 1,000 litres of oil.
They also stole £225 worth of oil from a property in Little Somborne sometime just after midnight on January 29 and midnight the next day. And 1,000 litres of oil was stolen from another property in Up Somborne between January 29 and 31.
Pikey Pete says...
8:24am Thu 7 Feb 13
Uses electric from the grid which is off set by solar panels.
So over 1 year your heating cost is free.
I saw it in Spain. Free Hot Water Spain was the name of the company.
Anyone with heating oil should see weather they have a place in the UK.