‘We don’t need police’: the New Forest village taking the law into its own hands

At the village with the most unsolved burglaries in the UK, shopkeepers are turning to vigilante-style tactics

Within the genteel New Forest village of Lyndhurst, it was considered a crime of almost outrageous audacity.

On a busy Saturday afternoon in February, two vividly painted Moorcroft pottery charger plates were stolen in plain sight from the middle of the venerable antique store.