Police advise of fraudulent workmen

In one of a incidents, a male called during a woman’s doorway in Stone Place in Mayfield, Midlothian, during around 4pm on Wednesday and claimed to be checking her H2O supply.

The lady refused him entrance and saw him make off in a blue automobile with during slightest one other passenger.

At around 4.15pm a prior day, group relating a outline were also seen pushing in a blue hatchback automobile by Newtongrange. The car committed a series of highway trade offences before streamer south on a A7.

Lothian and Borders Police trust a same group targeted an 85-year-old male in Galashiels a prior day, gaining entrance to his home though evading empty-handed. The suspects also stole money from an aged integrate in circuitously Stow.<!—
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