Golf buggy taken for a night-time Mcjoyride

Two alleged thieves stole a golf club chairman’s buggy and drove it to a Mcdonald’s in the middle of the night.

Bruce Tait, 69, a retired prison governor, had left his £4,000 cart locked up in the club shed ready to take his three-year-old grandson on a tour of Richmond Golf Club in North Yorkshire on Monday.

It later emerged that two men had stolen it and driven five miles from Richmond to Catterick, where they were arrested shortly before 4am.

North Yorkshire Police said an 18-year-old was arrested for taking without consent and has been charged with drink-driving. A second man, 19, has been released.