Thieves smashed their way into a family-run gym to steal £4,000-worth of equipment, including dumbbells and Olympic bars. Combat Fitness Stoke owner Joel McManus gym owner said he was "absolutely gutted and angry" after discovering the raid during a routine check on Tuesday.
The business, in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, is closed due to the coronavirus pandemic with the break in understood to have happened at 1.37am on Monday.
Joel, 37, has joined police in urging anyone who has any information to come forward. Weighted vests, wall balls, step-up boxes and plates were also among the items stolen, while the gym itself was ransacked, said the businessman and dad. "This is our family gym that we have worked so hard for, for so many years," he