Elderly pansy poachers strip a town's flowerbeds

An elderly couple are the prime suspects in a plot that has seen hundreds of bedding plants stolen from a Somerset town.

The horticultural heist was so brazen stunned onlookers did not even think to question what was going on in front of their eyes.

Shopkeepers thought nothing untoward was going on when they spotted two elderly people pull up next to newly-planted flowerbeds in Bridgwater.



And they did not think to challenge them when they started loading their ill-gotten gains into a getaway car.

Steadily over the past three weeks the meticulously laid bedding plants have been disappearing from around Bridgwater, leaving the town almost "flowerless" and infuriating the council team who spent hours planting them.

Officials suspect the duo have been getting away with the daylight robbery because nobody would think to challenge them.