A Quad Bike belonging to council workers was stolen from the side of an electricity substation in Wem.

The Yamaha, registration CX09 DKY, was parked alongside another bike in Whitchurch Road, opposite the junction with Love Lane, when it was taken between about 1.30-2.10pm on Friday.

The workmen were clearing road gullies and working a short distance along the road.

The bike has a black frame but the shell is mainly yellow.

It had been modified so it could accommodate road signs used to manage the traffic.

Constable Annie Hughes, who is investigating the incident, said: “Police are examining CCTV from the area and house to house enquiries are also being conducted.

“At this stage it has not been established how the vehicle was taken from the scene.

“It may have been ridden away or loaded on to or into another vehicle before being driven off.

“Anybody who saw persons tampering with the quad bike or who has any information about the incident is asked to contact me at Wem Police Station on 0300 333 3000.”

Hidsons ATV is a family owned business and has been serving the needs of motorists across Kent for 55 years. Their customers are so pleased with the level of service they provide they just keep coming back. They currently represent Kia, SEAT, Nissan and Citroen and the latest edition of Quad Biike sales to the family compliments their long established business.

Their ATV Centre is currently situated in their Kia and Nissan Showroom in Rainham, Kent and they also have Quad Bikes on display in their Citroen showroom at the other end of the High Street but it is their intention to move into a stand alone Quad Bike facitlity where they will be able to display a larger range of clothing, helmets, boots and accessories.

They would like to think they can cater for all of your Quad Bike needs as they have adopted some of their  experiences from 55 years of the Motor Industry and can filter these into a professional service that you would expect from a long standing business.

Hidsons currently sell the full range of Apache Quad Bikes including their range of road legal quads, so if you  are in the market for a road legal quad right now why not look up Hidsons on their web site at: www.quadbikesinkent.co.uk

QUAD World near Cullompton is holding a Fathers Day Challenge on Sunday from 10am to 5pm in aid of the charity Sparks and St Nicholas Catholic primary school in Exeter.

The challenge is not just for dads however ... mums and kids are also welcome to hit the saddle and share in the fun as all prices will be halved for the day.

For children it is just £5 each and for the fathers £10 each.

The day promises to be an exhilarating and novel way to celebrate Fathers Day.

The training was paid for by the Re-new St Helens neighbourhood management project, which secured leverage funding for the training and equipment.

Wearing a thin spray of mud and wide smiles, 11-year-old friends Dawkin Erceg and Sam Brickley rode their Quad Bikes into the record books Saturday in the USA.

The Duluth boys were part of 1,632 Quad Bike riders in an unofficial breaking of the world record for the longest ATV parade as they rode on a five-mile trip through the streets of this small town along the North Shore.

After coming 55 machines short in its first attempt last June, the Silver Bay parade broke the previous best of 1,138 set by the Harland County Ridge Runners in rural Kentucky in 2006.

Parade organizer Les Schermerhorn announced the tally Saturday night to a capacity crowd at the Union Hall in Silver Bay.

“I said, ‘One. Six. Three. Two.’ And the roof went off the union hall,” she said.

To meet the Guinness Book of World Records standards, the Silver Bay parade organizers needed to film the parade at the beginning, middle and end of the route to verify their claimed totals. The footage will be sent to London, where Guinness officials will judge the race’s validity and rule on the parade in the next couple months, Schermer­horn said. The final count must be all ATVs, not three-wheelers or side-by-sides.

If the Silver Bay parade makes its way into the Guinness Book of World Records, competition from the same bunch in Kentucky as well as Hurley, Wis., and Wyoming will probably challenge the new mark, Schermerhorn said.