Nurse cannot get to work at Wigan Infirmary after thieves steal car

An A&E nurse was reportedly unable to get to work at Wigan Infirmary after thieves stole her car.
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The nurse, named only as Amber in the Liverpool Echo, discovered her black Audi A1 car had been taken at around 6.30am on Tuesday when she left her home in Aigburth.

The burglars had broken into her boyfriend's car and found the keys to her vehicle, where she left them when they went shopping for a man who was self-isolating during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Amber told the Echo: "When we went shopping I just stuck the keys in the glove box of my boyfriend's car. When we have got back with all the shopping I have not realised and left them there.

The nurse could not get to work at Wigan InfirmaryThe nurse could not get to work at Wigan Infirmary
The nurse could not get to work at Wigan Infirmary

"This morning I was saying 'I can't find my keys' and he said maybe they were in his car. We went outside and we realised they had smashed the window of his car.

"I went round the corner to see my car and I realised it had gone."

Amber said it had been "really stressful and emotionally draining", the Echo reported, and she could not get to work on Tuesday without her car.

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Merseyside Police are investigating the theft and anyone with any information is asked to call the force on 101.

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