POLICE have issued a health warning after a large amount of frozen food was taken from bins outside a store.

The food was taken after a freezer malfunction at the North Eastern Co-op, in Main Street, Seahouses, Northumberland, leading to all its frozen products being discarded.

A police spokesman said: "There is concern for the health of anyone who eats the food because it has been in the bins and also because it would have defrosted."

The food items - ranging from beefburgers to garlic bread - was a mix of Co-op's own brand products and those of other producers.