Thieves have stolen cameras worth thousands of pounds from a Newcastle city centre store overnight.

They burgled the shop in Grainger Street, Newcastle after removing a security grill between it closing on Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

Northumbria Police said video and digital cameras had been taken in the raid but it was too early to say how many and how much they were worth.

A spokeswoman appealed for anyone who was offered a cheap camera to contact police.