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About 800 barrels of Guinness, worth £115,000, were taken from a Runcorn depot on Monday. Police believe two lorries were used to drive away with the beer and its trailers, which were branded for logistics company GXO. The total value of the stolen items, including the trailers, is around £205,000.
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