A man has been arrested in connection with a cash machine explosion.
The 34-year-old, from the Bradford area, was arrested in Leeds on Wednesday afternoon and remains in custody in Darlington.
The blast took place at a cash machine outside the Heron Foods store in Cockerton Green, Darlington, at 1.40am on Wednesday.
Tom Wilkinson
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The scene after a cash machine outside Matalan in Darlington was blown up last October(Tom Wilkinson/PA)
It followed a similar explosion which obliterated an ATM outside a Matalan in Darlington in October.
Durham Police believe the suspects in the latest raid filled the free-standing machine with gas, ignited it and then made off with a five-figure sum of cash.