Police and electrical engineers have had to clean up a Wimborne street after an army vehicle carrying a tank knocked down a pylon and street sign, and damaged a CCTV system.

The low-loader trailer was transporting a Titan bridge-laying tank through the town yesterday morning when it got into difficulties at the roundabout by the Pudding and Pye pub leading to West Street.

No-one was injured but the accident did expose live wiring, before the trailer was escorted onto the A31.