We'll Meat(pie) again

A former Islands visitor has made an emotional appeal - for a lost tortoise.

In the early 1970s Cynthia Page (previously Ball) was visiting Nancy Ball with her family and a baby tortoise answering to the name of MeatPie.

Cynthia claims Nancy “popped MeatPie into the garden of Diane Pearce”, who was living next door to Lloyds Bank, whilst she went into the Kavorna.

When she came out MeatPie was gone and it was the last Cynthia ever saw of him.

But in Autumn this year she heard that Diane had once found a tortoise in her garden.

“It’s got to be MeatPie,” Cynthia wrote to ScillyNews. “And, as tortoises live, he’s probably still alive and longing to be reunited with his original owner - then six-year-old Sally-Jo Page, now 36-year-old SJ Page.”

The appeal has featured in the ScillyNews guestbook - and Cynthia is looking forward to some good news.

But a local said: “The place is overrun with tortoises. How can people tell which one is MeatPie?”