THIS is the man police want to trace in connection with a theft from a Southampton convenience store.

A man stole a bag containing £277 in change from the Co-op store in Burgess Road.

He entered and left through a fire exit and grabbed the carrier containing £1 and 50p coins from the shop’s cash office between 6pm and 7.10pm on Wednesday, January 1.

Witnesses or anyone who recognises the man in the image should contact PC Gemma Frost on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously