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The theft of two brass plaques from the Labour Party's Keighley headquarters was "politically motivated", the town's MP has claimed.

Ann Cryer said the plaques, one of which was unveiled in memory of her late husband in 1995, were taken from outside the property's front door last Thursday night.

"One of them just said Keighley Labour Party', and had been there many years," she said.

"But the second one, which read Bob Cryer House', was a memorial to my husband and was unveiled by Dennis Skinner."

She said she believed the crime was political in nature, because other, more valuable brass plaques on nearby properties in Devonshire Street had not been touched.

"It's very hurtful and such a shame, but I suppose that's the way the world is at the moment," she said. "The place where the plaques were now looks very scruffy.

"It's possible someone could even have seen the person that did it, but just thought they were a workman doing a job."

She appealed to whoever was responsible for stealing the plaques to return them.

Bob Cryer was the Labour MP for Keighley from 1974-83 and was also MP for Bradford South from 1987 until his death in a road accident in 1994.

Responding to the news of the stolen plaques, Dennis Skinner, who has been MP for Bolsover since 1970, described the crime as "terrible".

He spent several years sitting next to his friend and colleague in the House of Commons.

A spokesman for Keighley police confirmed the theft was under investigation.

9:49am Thursday 1st May 2008

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