POLICE are investigating a series of thefts worth £100 from Coniston Honest Shop.

Officers from Cumbria Constabulary confirmed that a number of cakes had been taken from the Yewdale Road store earlier this month.

The shop prides itself on allowing customers to browse fresh goods and leave the correct sums of money for the produce they take.

The store prides itself on allowing customers to sign for the goods they have taken and leave the correct sums of money, rather than using sales assistants.

In a tweet posted today, Ulverston police said the incident was a "shame" and that trust was "broken", and village traditions were "lost".

If you have any information about this, please call police on 101.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PoliceDesk?src=hash">#PoliceDesk</a> report of thefts from Honest Shop CONISTON. Such a shame that trust is broken and quaint village traditions are lost 😢 <a href="https://t.co/UM5sdk1D1T">pic.twitter.com/UM5sdk1D1T</a></p>— Ulverston & Furness (@ulvpolice) <a href="https://twitter.com/ulvpolice/status/897789865991041025">August 16, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>