CHARITY cyclists have arrived back home after a 600-mile charity bicycle ride without their bikes, which have been stolen.

The fundraisers, trainees from TTE Mechanical and Technical Training in South Bank, Middlesbrough, had cycled through Europe in aid of the Butterwick Children's Hospice, Stockton.

Their fundraising efforts were still a success, despite having their cycles stolen the day before they got home this week.

They were met in Middlesbrough by Mary Butterwick, of the hospice