The steel post had been temporarily left near a recycling pile, so police officers think it may have been taken accidentally by someone who thought it was scrap metal.

Express has been told the 7’ steel box section fence post is heavy as well as large so it would have taken at least two people, with a van or a truck, to move it.

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Pictured above and main image: Fence posts at Alderney Harbour, similar to the one missing

The Steel post belongs to Alderney Harbour and staff had been due waiting to put it up before it went missing.

Anyone with information should contact SGT Taylor at Alderney police station by emailing James.taylor@guernsey.pnn.police.uk, by calling him on 824999 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.