Tyre Thefts: Warning to watch your wheels...

(Broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke, January 2016) If you're a driver the least you expect when you get into your car for a journey is for it to have four wheels -- or five if you count the steering wheel.

But for some unfortunate victims in Stafford recently that's not been the case.

BBC Radio Stoke's spoken to three car owners who've had their wheels stolen in the last week -- with the vehicles left outside their homes on bricks or the pavement.

Our reporter EMMA THOMAS reports...