EXMOUTH police are appealing for witnesses to help trace the heartless culprit who stole two charity boxes from a town centre bookshop.

EXMOUTH police are appealing for witnesses to help trace the heartless culprit who stole two charity boxes from a town centre bookshop.

Two Devon Air Ambulance Trust collection boxes were stolen from the counter of Best Books, in The Parade, on Wednesday.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the police, quoting crime reference KE/09/3065.