Church warden Simon Thompson next to the empty concrete plinth that held the eagle lectern in the village church near Huntingdon A church warden said he believed the theft of a valuable brass eagle ...

Footage shows the man walk up the aisle of St Augustine’s Church in Edgbaston, in Birmingham, at around 11am on Monday. The crook draped a blanket over the heavy brass lectern before brazenly carrying ...

BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND — A church in Birmingham had a brass eagle stolen from its Victorian lectern on June 10, with the hooded suspect caught on CCTV. Video from St Augustine’s Church in Edgbaston shows ...

This is the shocking moment a brazen thief walks through an empty church to snatch a priceless bronze eagle sculpture that people have worshipped in front of for nearly 160 years. CCTV footage shared ...

The 1.5ft wooden sculpture was sawn off a church lectern on Monday, but returned days later A treasured hand-carved oak eagle sawn off a lectern at a parish church by a thief has been returned. The ...

A pair of eagle lecterns which were stolen from two Norfolk churches have now been returned. Police were called to St Mary’s Church, in Bale Road, in Gunthorpe, on June 12, with reports that a wooden ...

A hand-carved wooden eagle stolen from a church in Devon has been returned. The sculpture was sawn off a lectern at St Paul's in Yelverton on Monday evening, the Reverend Andrew Thomas said. The West ...

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