Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

Did you hear the story about these three young flatmates who hunted down their own burglars, busted them, and took back their stuff?  Sarah, Anna, and Charlotte, all in their 20s, got home from work in Christchurch, and some mug, or mugs, had broken in and stolen their stuff.  Rooms were ransacked. Stolen items? Cameras, laptops, jewellery. Also missing? Clothes, undies, and frozen curry from the freezer.  Not the butter chicken!  But there was one thing they needed back urgently and sparked amateur detectives into action - a stolen passport. One of them needed to travel overseas.  So, they asked the neighbours - what police would call in a press release 'canvassing the area'.  The neighbours told them which way the robbers went. What police would call 'positive lines of inquiry'.  They followed the leads, or 'made a breakthrough' in the case. Found the house the alleged thieves had returned to.  Opened the door, caught the culprits red-handed, wearing their stuff,