York students living around Heslington Road have been the victims of a series of recent attempted burglaries. One student, whose house was targeted last Tuesday, described an attempt by three men to distract residents by putting leaflets through the letterbox, while others attempted to gain access around the back of the house. “It was lucky that some of us were in,” said resident Dani Cole. “The fact that my housemae spotted someone looking through our letterbox at the same time shows they were working as a team and trying to check if the house was empty.”