HOW safe is your car when you’re at home?

That’s the question police in Cheshire’s Western Area are asking residents.

There is currently a growing trend of thieves taking vehicles using the hook and cane method.

This involves an instrument, usually a narrow rod, with a metal hook attachment being thrust through letterboxes to take car keys which have been left on open view.

Several cars are stolen in this way each week.

For the full story see next week’s Pioneer.