A runaway tortoise has turned up after two years - when it was found crawling around an equestrian centre five miles from where she lived.
Jemima the tortoise managed to make a slow getaway from the home of Charles Waddell in May 2021, leaving his eight-year-old daughter Beatrice devastated. The family spent months looking for the 50-year-old pet every day as well as making appeals on social media but Jemima was nowhere to be found.
They eventually gave up hope of seeing the reptile alive again - until they spotted a Facebook post last month about a tortoise being found and taken to a vets. After phoning the vets and sending them a picture of Jemima, they were stunned when they confirmed it was their missing pet.
