A MAN who stole a pub's ornamental trough was told by a court yesterday to go straight - or face prison.

Nicholas Keith Johnson admitted stealing the £200 Victorian draining trough from outside Bar Med, in part of Harrogate's Royal Baths. He also pleaded guilty to the theft of a £400 mountain bike.

Johnson, 22, of Manor Gardens, Killinghall, Harrogate, also pleaded guilty to crossing double white lines on the A61 Harrogate-Leeds road and failing to produce a driving licence for police examination.

The court heard how Johnson was also in breach of a year-long drug treatment and testing order (DTTO), imposed last June.

Giving him an 18-month community rehabilitation order, court chairman Tim Burrell said: ''You were given an opportunity with the DTTO, but it was one you chose not to take.

"I don't think it takes a lot of imagination to realise what might happen it you break this latest order."