A NON-PROFIT Southampton venue has been targeted by burglars.

The Art House in Above Bar street were broken into in the early hours of Wednesday morning between the hours of 2.30am and 3.30am.

Thieves made off with laptops and iphones which were donated to the art café.

"The venues manager Jani Franck said: "The disruption is unreal, there have been a few venues in the area targeted lately.

"We will need to do a fundraising event to upgrade the security in the next few days.

"The venue will lose days over this, for a small business it is horrific, but unfortunately it seems to be the small businesses that are targeted the most and that shouldn't be the case."

Mettricks Old Town on the Highstreet was hit by thieves nine times last year.

The break-in has been been reported to the police and anyone with information can call 101 citing the reference number 44170086865.