A BALLINGRY man broke into a house in his street and helped himself to the contents, including a wheelchair and a generator.

The thief was 52-year-old Thomas Currie, of Kirkland Avenue.

At Dunfermline Sheriff Court, he admitted that on September 17, he broke into a vacant property owned by a man, now deceased, in Kirkland Avenue.

He stole a quantity of garden equipment, a wheelchair, a generator, a wallet containing £135 and bank cards, a quantity of jewellery, a mobile telephone, collectable coins and a sum of money.

Sheriff Susan Duff called for reports and Currie will be sentenced on April 19.