THIEVES made off with an unusual haul from a Tavistock pub last week.

The new landlord and landlady of the Tavistock Inn, Dave and Julie Armstrong, were amazed when they found that one of the chains in their smart new ladies' loo had disappeared.

Dave said: 'We put these lovely new loos in and they've got really nice pulls. We couldn't believe it when we came in to find one missing — whoever took it was really determined because they actually had to stand on the toilet seat to get to it, and they took the whole lever arm.

'Then the same day — and we presume it must have been the same people — we noticed that a blue tile toilet sign had been prised off the wall outside the gents!

'We did have a chuckle about it — of all things to steal from a pub, we'd never have thought of the toilet chain!'

Despite being the victim of theft, Dave said he and his wife were delighted to be in Tavistock.

'It's fantastic, people have been absolutely brilliant — and Tavistock is wonderful,' he said.