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Police ask for public help after ram raid rips cash machine from Co-op wall

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Police are appealing for witnesses after a cash machine was ripped out of a wall in a ram raid outside a Co-op store in Suffolk Officers were called at 3.45am yesterday (24 June), after reports of an incident at the village Co-op on High Street,…

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