THIEVES broke into a town centre wine bar twice in just five days taking an exclusive range of gins and the tills.

Harvey's in Mawdsley Street was targeted by thieves on Thursday and again on Monday, both times the offenders smashed a window at the front to get inside.

Thieves took the tills on Thursday and had got together a bucket filled with gins but had not taken it with them.

When manager Husky Faldu got in on Tuesday morning the gins were gone.

Mr Faldu said: "They are Sweet Little Liqueurs in heart shaped bottles and we're the only people in Bolton with the full range. They've taken 15 of them.

"It's probably the same people, they took the tills again after we bought new ones last time."

Mr Faldu estimated in stolen stock, tills, cash and replacements and repairs the break ins had cost him at least £2,000.

He said: "People think it's only a bottle of spirits. I don't understand why it happens and why it's happening to people who work hard in Bolton town centre."

Mr Faldu said a PCSO had told him there had been other break ins around the town centre recently and The Bolton News understands Poundland was broken into on Monday morning at 1am.

In total around 30 bottles of spirits were taken from the display behind Harvey's bar and at least £500 in cash was taken.

The thieves tried twice on Thursday to get in said Mr Faldu. A window at the back was smashed but it leads only to a corridor with the toilets which is locked over night.

Then they smashed a square window at the front of the property to the right of the door to get inside. The thieves broke another window at the front on Tuesday morning.

Mr Faldu has been working at Harvey's since the end of November last year when it was reopened with a focus on cocktails and gins.

Since then Mr Faldu said he had not seen any trouble since coming to Harvey's but said staff who had worked there longer had known people try to break in through the back before.

Police confirmed enquiries are ongoing. 

If anyone has any information about the incidents please contact police on 101 quoting reference number 387 of September 11, 2018.