A CAT who has been missing from a Cornish village for eight months has been found – with help from across the Atlantic.
Jerry was spotted by a US woman watching a webcam. She saw him most evenings, bedding down on the doorstep of a hotel in Polperro and posted a message on a village forum.
"Now we are trying to catch him there – but he is proving a bit elusive," s
aid Jerry's owner, 30-year-old Abbi Rendell.
• A SPECIAL breed of pint-sized pigs is in such demand as pets that thousands have joined a waiting list to get one.
The Pennywell miniature breed was developed at award-winning Pennywell Farm activity centre in Buckfastleigh, Devon, by owner Chris Murray.
The petite porkers are the result of a 14-year breeding programme.
• A FIREFIGHTER came to the rescue when a giant tortoise got trapped under a garden chair.
Matt Furber, 41, cut a leg off the chair with a hacksaw to allow to tortoise to continue its journey around the garden in Essex.
"Without doubt it's the strangest call I have ever received," said Mr Furber.
"The tortoise was about the size of a dustbin lid. It had gone under one of those metal-framed garden chairs and got stuck.
"I borrowed a hacksaw and cut one of the legs off the chair. I did look in our guidelines to see if we had anything on trapped tortoises – but we didn't."
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