A PENSIONER is on the receiving end of a Christmas prank, which has seen the removal from her front garden at her home in Tremabe Park, of a large pink pig!

The first 76-year-old Audrey Haley knew of the disappearance of Percy the pig, was when a note, pretending to be from him, was pushed through the letterbox of her Dobwalls home.

It read: 'Dear Mrs., I'm fed up being stuck in a cold garden so I have decided to go on holiday to a warmer place for Christmas. See you soon. Love The Pig x

Mrs Haley, says the prank is quite funny, and she is confident Percy will just turn up again one day. 'I am half expecting a postcard from him. I have known that to happen before to people who have had things taken,' she said.

'I'm very fond of Percy as he has been at the top of my garden for 15 years and everyone around here is quite attached to him.'

Mrs Haley says she has asked her family and neighbours but no one is owning up.

'I am certain whoever took my pig must have done it after dark and would have had a car or van to put him in,' she said. 'He is about one and a half feet tall by two feet long. He is some pig!'