Cabbage the Twitter-famous lost-and-found dog dies at 15

Cabbage was ‘a lovely, energetic and really smart member of our family,’ Rory Cellan-Jones said. Photograph: Rory Cellan-Jones

A dog that went viral when she was stolen and then found within hours thanks to a Twitter campaign has died aged 15.

Cabbage, the collie cross of the former BBC journalist Rory Cellan-Jones, trended on Twitter last November when she and five other dogs were stolen together with a van in Acton, west London, after a dog walker left his keys in the ignition.