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1 Police officers were petted with eggs and showered with urine as they tried to reclaim a stolen lorry from a "travellers" campsite.
Thieves had been seen driving away a blue Renault 7.5tensor from Burton on Trent haulier Stan Robinson's yard in Bond Street last week; an on-board tracking device enabled police to trace the Renault to a site behind Swadlincote ski centre in Derbyshire.
Inspector Mark Reilly says: "When the officers approached the lorry they came under attack from people throwing eggs and urinating on them. The officers requested back-up and it took four Staffordshire police patrols and three Derbyshire patrols to recover the lorry. This was an unprovoked and disgusting attack on police offers doing their job."
One man is being questioned by poke about the lorry theft and two others are being hunted.
A spokesman for Robinson's confirms that they have their truck back.