Traffic on the M25 was stopped on Thursday, July 15 when a stolen digger on the back of a truck was intercepted by Herts police between the South Mimms and Potters Bar junctions.
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Six people have been arrested in connection with the theft of a digger worth more than £50,000 following a stop on the M25 motorway near Potters Bar.
At around 5.45pm on Thursday, July 15, police received an alert that the large digger, which had been stolen from the Dunstable area of Bedfordshire, was in transit on the M25.
Specially trained officers from the Mobile Support Team and the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Road Policing Unit were deployed to the area, where they discovered the stolen vehicle on the back of a truck, with a black Kia Sedona travelling in convoy.