And finally… Stolen digger leads police on three-hour chase
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A 22-year-old man has been arrested after a three-hour pursuit of a 44-tonne digger.
Leicestershire Police said the man called them in the early hours of the morning to say he had stolen the bulldozer.
A helicopter was drafted in to help and officers managed to stop the yellow-and-black machine on the A511 around Coalville, near Leicester, at 7am.
The force, which tweeted an image of the pursuit, said: “Police were called at 3.14am today by a man who claimed to have stolen a 44-tonne digger from the Coalville area.”
No-one was hurt in the incident.
Earlier, a spokesman for the National Police Air Service Birmingham-based helicopter said: “Just assisted our Leicestershire colleagues bring the pursuit of a stolen 44-tonne wheeled bulldozer to a safe end in Coalville!”
The 22-year-old remains in police custody.
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