CORRIE PORKERS FACING THE AXE.Byline: By AIDAN McGURRAN TWO pigs who appeared in Coronation Street Coronation Street is an award-winning British soap opera. It is the longest-running television soap opera in the United Kingdom, first broadcast on Friday, 9 December, 1960 in the Granada region of ITV. are to be slaughtered. Porky pork·y 1 adj. pork·i·er, pork·i·est 1. Of or like pork: a porky flavor. 2. Slang Fat or corpulent. and Bess were axed from the show after tight-fisted grandad Keith Harris bought them as piglets and horrified hor·ri·fy tr.v. hor·ri·fied, hor·ri·fy·ing, hor·ri·fies 1. To cause to feel horror. See Synonyms at dismay. 2. To cause unpleasant surprise to; shock. residents failed to liberate the pair. They were sold to butcher Fred Eliot and left the soap in November. Corrie bosses gave the animals to an animal handling firm which sent them to Umberslade Children's Farm in Tanworth- in-Arden, West Mids. But farmer Jane Muntz has ignored pleas to put the pigs in a sanctuary and has decided to send them to slaughter. She said: "In the programme they went for meat and they shouldn't be spared in real life either. I'm dead against sanctuaries where animals just roam around doing nothing. Pigs are farm animals." A Corrie spokeswoman said: "We would have loved them to stay at the farm but they're not our property." aidan.mcgurran@mgn.co.uk CAPTION(S): CHOP: Porky and Bess |
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