Police warning after counterfeit money used to buy mobile phone

Police have issued a counterfeit money warning after an online seller was fleeced with fake notes.

The victim had put a mobile phone up for sale on an internet trading site. He later discovered the purchaser had paid the £240 in bogus Bank of England £20 notes.

Thieves stole a blue BMW 540i M sports car from Glamis Court, Gleneagles Village, overnight on May 11-12. On the same evening, property was stolen from a car parked in Dunbar Court, Gleneagles Village.

A shed was broken into at Loak Farm, Perth Road, Bankfoot, between May 12-14 and two motorbikes were stolen.

Officers are also trying to trace thieves who broke into a maintenance shed at Kenmore Country Club overnight on May 12-13 and stole a number of power tools.

Elsewhere, a metal container was broken into at Sellars, Almondgrove Place, Inveralmond Industrial Estate, Perth, overnight on May 11-12 and a grey Karcher power washer was stolen.

Thieves broke into Kinross Golf Club around 11.20pm on May 15 and stole a quantity of golf clubs.

Vandals smashed the rear windscreen of a white Ford Fiesta that had been parked in Leslie Street, Blairgowrie, between May 11-13. The passenger window of a grey Citroen Berlingo van parked in Provost Road, Blairgowrie, was also smashed during the same period.

A spare car tyre was stolen from the premises of Enterprise Rent-a-car in Arran Road, Perth, on the morning of May 10.

Anyone with information on any of these crimes should phone police on 101.