LANCASHIRE and Yorkshire detectives were hunting a gang of high-class burglars who netted more than £400,000 in valuable antiques and jewellery.
Twenty raids on houses in East Lancashire were thought to have been carried out by the professional gang who had also struck in Leeds.
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