A family is celebrating after they found their runaway pet tortoise.

The owners of Henry the tortoise made frantic appeals to the public via Facebook group Spotted Crawley after the reptile went missing from their home in Windrush Close in the Gossops Green area of Crawley.

Resident Tudor Wells said the family had kept Henry for more than 40 years and had searched greenhouses, outhouses, next door gardens and behind sheds over the weekend.

The search ended happily on Sunday when the stowaway was found buried where he had never buried himself before.