A fast food shop in South Oxhey has been broken into for the second time in a month.

Police were alerted to a burglar alarm in Boston Chicken, Prestwick Road, at 3.14am this morning.

When they got there they found a fruit machine had been broken into.

The shutter at the back of the building was half open but the door was not damaged, police are unsure how the intruders got in.

On Monday, December 12, burglars broke into the fast food shop, forced open the fruit machine and stole an unspecified amount of cash between 4.21am and 5.07am.