A couple have been arrested for allegedly stealing food and cleaning products – after a trail of washing powder led straight to their house. Thieves swiped an estimated £1,300 of supplies from the Atherton & Leigh Foodbank in Greater Manchester last weekend. But volunteers spotted a trail of detergent leading to a nearby address. Police later arrested a man, 42, and woman, 38, on suspicion of theft. Thieves swiped an estimated £1,300 of food and cleaning products from Atherton & Leigh Foodbank (not pictured) and volunteers spotted a trail of detergent leading to a nearby address The food, which was stored in a container behind St John the Baptist Church in Market Place, Atherton, was stolen some time between Saturday evening and Sunday morning.

'It makes you wonder why they are so desperate for the money — and there have been a lot of break-ins in

OPTIONS:
- Atherton in the last two weeks by the sounds of it.
- Greater Manchester in the last two weeks by the sounds of it.
- Leigh Foodbank in the last two weeks by the sounds of it.
- Market Place in the last two weeks by the sounds of it.
- Police in the last two weeks by the sounds of it.
- St John the Baptist Church in the last two weeks by the sounds of it.


Atherton in the last two weeks by the sounds of it.