Massive thanks to GuyG for alerting me to this post on buy, sell and swap fb page
Im Newcastle based -let me know if i can ever help you out!

Wheels recovered (even though i paid money to get my own wheels back.. )
the dude i got them from was located about an hr drive away and while on his way on up to the Barringtons for a 4b, i met him in Raymond terrace and wheels are returned

he was very obliging in the return and gave some information about the tyres (which were stripped from the wheels before he bought them)

Im not interested in recovering the rubber (although it would be nice) but would like to know how they came to be removed from our grounds (you could not see them from just passing on the street and it would a great effort to throw a 33" muddie and wheel over a 6ft chainwire mesh and 3 strands of barbed wire fence) - tending to point to an insider job.

Thanks everyone for your info - and may the decipitful sods reap what they sow!

- Tony