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A milk truck was hijacked last week by a young couple in what police think was a late-night drunken prank. The lesson of not leaving your keys in the cab was underlined for the milk delivery man when his Grahams' Dairies 7.5-tonne Leyland Daf truck was taken at 4am in Kilmarnock while the driver made a drop.

Police say CCTV footage shows an apparently drunk couple jumping in the truck and driving off, with the driver making an aborted effort to get back in as they drove away. The reporting  police officer, PC Kevin MacGuire, says: "It looks as if they have had a few drinks and the guy seems to be egging the girl on, but it does show pretty clearly that you really shouldn't leave your keys in the cab."

Things took an even more unpleasant turn later when the truck was found nose-down at the bottom of a railway embankment three miles away near the village of Hurlford. MacGuire says: "My suspicion is that the people who took the truck are not the same ones who crashed it." Police are using the CCTV images to try to trace the couple who took the truck in the first place.