THIEVES left competitors in a Cheshire race in an uncomfortable state – by stealing toilets provided to the event by a Dyserth company.

The 10 mobile toilets were delivered to a field in the village of Farndon, last Friday (September 22), in time for Sunday’s 10k road race.

But by the time the 300 runners began arriving, they had disappeared.

A competitor said: “It was an unusual situation and even the ladies were looking for suitable hedges.”

A spokeswoman for Waterloo Hire, from Dyserth, who provided the toilets, said the toilets were taken sometime between 2pm on Friday and 6am on Sunday.

“Whoever took them must have had the right type of vehicle to load them,” she said.

“It’s understandable that anyone seeing them being loaded would have assumed they were official.”

The company managed to provide two other toilets by the time the race finished.

Cheshire Police are investigating the theft.