Precious Silver found after legging it with hunting hound

LOST LASSIE look-alike Silver, the pegleg mascot of the Paphos International Sailing Club, was yesterday reunited with his devoted owner, pensioner Bryan Wilcock from Chlorakas, thanks to an appeal in yesterday’s Cyprus Mail .

Silver went missing on Tuesday, when he broke his collar and ran off with a hunting dog.

Chlorakas residents Petros Theodosiou and his English girlfriend Debbie Blagboro found him alone near the Tombs of the Kings on Wednesday night.

Concerned that his three-legged state might have been the result of a recent accident, they took him home to feed him and get him checked by a vet.

They asked around in the village, but no one seemed to recognise Silver, who came from the other end of Chlorakas.

But then they saw the article in yesterday’s Cyprus Mailand phoned the newspaper to get in touch with Bryan.

The three met up yesterday afternoon and Bryan was delighted to have his beloved dog back. ” He’s very well and he’s been well looked after,”he said.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.