A BURGLAR escaped with cash from a purse after breaking into a house in Annie Street, Selby, last night.

The thief gained entry by forcing a rear window.

A Kohler generator, worth £1,000, was stolen last night from a caravan parked in South Milford. Police said the caravan was parked in a field about half-a-mile north of the railway bridge at South Milford, and was being used for an agricultural exhibition.

Updated: 12:46 Tuesday, July 15, 2003