By Phil Birchmore
THE president of a Leeds-based cricket club claims they were close to losing everything before police stepped in to foil a recent burglary attempt.
Officers found two vans loaded up with equipment – including a tractor, four lawnmowers, a lawnspiking machine, a strimmer and a leaf blower – that had been removed from a storage container at Kirkstall Educational CC.
The vans were parked at the bottom of the club’s Queenswood Road ground before police disturbed the team of burglars after receiving a call from a local resident.
“When the police arrived,...