Search on for big orange food truck taken from layby

The trailer had recently been kitted out ready for the new business venture

A large orange food truck has been stolen from outside its owner's house just a week before she was due to begin trading.

The distinctive 4.5m (15ft) trailer had been parked in a layby in front of the owner's home in St Bede's Crescent in Cambridge when it was taken at about 20:20 GMT on Friday, 21 February.

Aman Kaur said she had spent £30,000 on the trailer and equipment to kit it out for her new business venture.

Cambridgeshire Police confirmed it was investigating the theft and appealed for fresh information or dashcam and doorbell footage after CCTV captured the trailer being pulled along Cherry Hinton Road, Hills Road and Brooklands Avenue before going out of site.

A blurry image of a car towing the trailer away was captured on CCTV at 20:19 on Friday night

The trailer had been parked in the layby since Ms Kaur bought it in November.

"We were going to start trading this weekend - and now it's gone," she said.

"The sign for the outside - ChipStopp - only arrived on Thursday night and we didn't even have time to attach it."

The food truck was kitted out ready for her business which would have sold loaded fries, waffles and deserts.

Ms Kaur described the theft of her new business as "a really terrible thing"

Inside was all the new equipment including pots and pans, waffle makers, a milkshake machine, heater, fridges and a freezer - and the new sign for the truck.

A neighbour's CCTV caught a brief glimpse of the trailer being driven away at speed by a red car, which Ms Kaur believed to be a Citroen.

At the time of the theft it had been parked between two cars, so Ms Kaur said: "We didn't think it could be stolen."

She made an appeal on a local Facebook group and various sighting were reported of the truck being towed in the Hills Road direction of the city.

Ms Kaur has appealed to anyone with footage, or who has spotted the trailer to get in touch with the police.