A bizarre theft has seen a storage shed lifted clean off its base and stolen from a rugby club.

The "normal brown garden shed" was used to house equipment at the Canterbury Rugby Club's ground in Merton Lane, Canterbury

But chairman Giles Hilton was exasperated to discover at about 10am today that it had been swiped sometime over the last couple of days.

"It's just really frustrating because it's happened in lockdown, when the club's finances are not at the greatest level they could be," he said.

"We've now got to replace it at some stage. It's just a bit of expense we don't really want to have.

"It wasn't very big, it was just a really useful piece of equipment.

"It's only a small, brown garden shed, that's very useful for storing match day equipment for the ball boys and things."

Mr Hilton says thieves cut a bolt on the shed doors, before removing and leaving behind everything it contained.

"It was on a concrete pad and had some uprights that hold it in place," he explained. "They've unscrewed all that, lifted it, and walked away with it.

"They haven't even bothered to take the wooden base at the bottom of the shed.

"Next time I might paint it the club colours," he joked. "It would be pretty obvious in somebody's garden then!"

Mr Hilton says he plans to seek advice as to whether he should report the incident to the police.

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