Video footage has shown the moment police chainsawed a door during early morning raids in the Midlands and Carlisle. 

Six people were arrested as part of a major investigation into an organised crime gang targeting cash machines at banks and shops across the country. 

Detectives swooped on six addresses around the Midlands and one in Cumbria with five men and a woman arrested. 

The arrests took place in Bromsgrove, Bloxwich, Bilston, Featherstone and Carlisle. 

Hundreds of thousands of pounds have been stolen in a series of nine attacks on cash machines with the gang striking in Cumbria, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Leighton Buzzard and Towcester near Milton Keynes.

Five stolen high-powered Audis were used in the spree, as well as a flat-bed van, which was used to ram walls and break into the cash machines.

The gang would use angle grinders and 'jaws of life' - cutting equipment used by firefighters to free people trapped in cars after collisions – to break their way into cash machines.

The six suspects have been charged since the video was made and are set to appear at Wolverhampton Magistrates' Court today (Thursday, October 17).