A Tortoises' Tale

A 109-year-old tortoise has been reunited with his owner, almost a year after going on the run. Toby escaped from Wendy Stokes’s garden in Kent in May last year when the gate was left open. Spotted by a passerby on a nearby road, he was taken to a rescue centre, and rehomed in Margate. But then Toby’s new owners made out the name “Stokes” in faded white paint on his shell – and set about ringing every Stokes in Kent until they found Wendy, 74. “I went all goosey when they told me,” she said. “I had really given up on him.”

Source: The Week