Kitten hitch-hiker

COUNCIL STAFF staff are appealing for the owners of a black kitten to come forward - after it hitched a lift on one of their vans.

The kitten was found cowering under the wheel-arch of the vehicle by horticultural workers at South Somerset District Council.

It is believed to have boarded the van at the authority's Lufton Depot in Yeovil and clung on until arriving in Bruton - around 20 miles away.

By Press Association reporters