A GANG of hole-in-the-wall crooks tunnelled into a jewellery shop and wheeled away a giant safe in an elaborate heist.

The burglars smashed their way into Aquarius Jewellers and Pawnbrokers in Walton High Street by making a hole in an adjoining wall.

They managed to load the shop’s giant metal safe on to a trolley and wheel it through the hole in the wall, out of the garage.

Read the full story in the Clacton Gazette, out now.