AR-News: (UK) A crackling good yarn

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

Next month the BBC screens a comedy based on the press hunt for a couple of 
pigs who escaped on the way to an abattoir. But here's the real story by Steven 
Morris who, then a Mail reporter, remembers a crazy week in Wiltshire: Where 
are they now? 

Monday March 1, 2004
The Guardian 

It was a crazy week. A week of intrigue, wheeler-dealing and dirty tricks. A 
week in which Fleet Street's finest went head to head in cold, muddy woods, 
knowing their careers could be boosted or seriously harmed by the outcome. 
A week when the grey January skies above the Wiltshire town of Malmesbury 
were busy with helicopters commandeered by television crews and photographers. 
When foreign news organisations scrambled veterans of wars to find out what all 
the fuss was about. When sub-editors trotted out a seemingly infinite number 
of piggy puns and highbrow commentators were given the opportunity to muse over 
the very British sentimental obsession with animals. 





full story:

http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,1158964,00.html 
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