A TEENAGER'S one-girl campaign to recover her bicycle paid off when it was returned just two days after being stolen.

Fourteen-year-old Sheena Littler was devastated when she woke up on Monday, April 1 to discover that someone had stolen her bike overnight from the front of their home in Wesley Avenue, Haydock.

But she was determined not to let the thieves get away it. Her proud mum Joan Blundell told the Star: " Sheena was really angry when we first discovered the theft and although she went straight to the police, she decided to try her best to get it back herself. Both she and her older sister Kirsty combed the streets looking for the bike and asking everyone they met if they had seen it anywhere."

Sheena also put up notices in every local shop window, as well as knocking on doors in the neighbourhood.

And all her hard work was rewarded just two days later when younger brother James woke her to tell her that the bike had been returned undamaged to their back garden.

Joan said: "I am very proud of her. She deserved to get it back after all the trouble she went to. This should serve as an incentive to anyone else who has anything stolen that, with a bit of effort, it is possible to get it back again."

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