A spate of burglaries in Falmouth over the last two weeks has left three businesses and a school out of pocket.

Last Monday, October 13, the front door was smashed at Tava health and beauty salon on Boslowick Road, and two thieves took a till before driving away.

Salon owner Alexandra Hearley was called by a resident of the flats babove the salon, at around 2.30am on the Monday morning.

She said: “They smashed the front door window and broke in. Two men, one in a car which the people from the flats couldn’t see.

“They came, grabbed the till and they were out the door again.

“We do have CCTV footage of them.”

She added: “There’s no money taken, but the key tokens for the sunbed were, so we haven’t been able to use that. It’s just so frustrating; you work hard for something, for somebody else to come and destroy it.”

Thieves also struck twice in one day at Tregoniggie Industrial Estate on Bickland Water Road, where two UPVC doors had panels kicked in.

Police are looking for two men, of an unknown age and description, as they were wearing hooded tops with the hoods pulled up, and jogging bottoms. 

Tickle Yer Tastebuds bakery was broken into between 8pm on Thursday, October 16 and 7.20am the following morning, with burglars kicking in a UPVC door panel before ransacking the property and leaving with a metal cash box and around £150 in cash.

Owner Wendy Byrne said: “They came in and moved things, took lids off boxes. They took the float that we had, and opened the till but thank goodness there was nothing in it. They even opened the oven doors, which was silly, and my cupboards. It was a mess.

“It’s quite lucky because I usually get here about 5.30am or 6am, and if I had been here something nasty might have happened, especially as they had crowbars.”

“They just broke my door and damaged a couple of food boxes, which have gone now anyway, I wouldn’t use them once they had been handled.”

Wendy said she was upset because she had to close the business for the day, and she didn’t like disappointing her customers.

She said: “I was banned from the kitchen while the investigation had to be done and of course I wasn’t able to do any pasties or anything at all that day.

“So I had some very unhappy customers but they understood, so that was a good thing. I hated letting them down.

“I’ve still got to come to terms with it really, why did they pick on a small little unit?”

At around the same time, thieves also broke into neighbouring salon Ultimate Beauty, again by kicking the bottom panel from the front door of the unit. They conducted an untidy search of the property, and took hair products, hair straighteners and two iPods, as well as a small amount of money from the till. A laptop believed to have been stolen has since been found, and was not taken. Police have conducted house to house and business to business enquiries, and are appealing for help from the public.

Police are also looking for two men in relation to a burglary at Falmouth School, in which valuable IT equipment was stolen.

Officers investigating the break-in, which happened in the early hours of Tuesday, October 14, have released a CCTV image of the pair.

Thieves smashed into one of the rooms at the school by smashing a ground floor window, sometime between 1.13am and 2.50am, before making off with several Apple Mac computers, monitors and keyboards.

DC Simon Rafferty of Falmouth CID said: “We would like to speak to the two men pictured as they may be able to assist with enquiries."

If you have any information on any of these incidents contact Falmouth police by calling 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111, using the crime references CR/114402/14 for Tava, CR/115191/14 for Tickle Yer Tastebuds, CR/115200/14 for Ultimate Beauty or CR/114330/14 for Falmouth School.