FURNITURE thieves made off with a haul of settees valued at more than £6,000 after they forced the lock on a lorry trailer parked in the retail park off Charles Watts Way, Hedge End.

The gang made off with a dark brown, a cream and a dark blue three-seater settee, together worth £4,127, two two-seater settees valued at £2,427 and a square yellow footstool.