A Poole man's been jailed for 20 months - for stealing a dustbin lorry and leading police on a fifty mile chase across Dorset ... during which he almost ran over an officer.

22 year old Aaron Millar - of Station Road in Parkstone - took the truck from a recycling centre in Wimborne in March and was pursued by eight patrol cars for an hour and a half before crashing into a hedge near Weymouth.

He's pleaded guilty to a number of charges AFTER his trial started.