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3. A British couple have been left with nothing but the clothes on their backs after their campervan was broken into just a week after landing in New Zealand.

Nicola Forsyth, 28, and Tom Hiscock, 33, were visiting Te Papa in Wellington on Tuesday when thieves broke into their van, parked nearby, and stole all their belongings.

Everything was taken, including their backpacks with all their clothes and toiletries, and - of most concern to them - their camera memory cards where all their photographs are stored.

All they have left is the clothes they were wearing, their passports and a camera.

“We just feel completely sick,” said Nicola. “It’s hard to believe we lost everything just a few months into our travelling trip.”

The pair saved for two years for their “trip of a lifetime”, taking in South America, NZ, Australia and South-East Asia over nine months.

“We spent the last couple of months in South America and we expected something like this to happen there, not in broad daylight in New Zealand,” she said.

“It’s been one of our favourite countries, and I guess we’ve just been really unlucky.”

She said if there was “one thing” they could get back it would be the memory cards and USB stick so they don’t lose all their photographs from the trip.

They reported the burglary to police, who dusted for fingerprints and are studying CCTV footage, aided by Tom, a police officer who works at Scotland Yard.