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Tamworth

HIS jolly, busy pig was made famous by the ‘Tamworth Two’, the pair of porkers that became a media sensation after escaping from an abattoir in, which won an award for its coverage of the story, lived to a ripe old age.) David Wilson, a farm manager for The King, who has had Tamworths at both Home Farm in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, and at Dumfries House in Ayrshire, once described the breed as the ‘PhDs of the pig world’ and serial escapees.

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