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The owner of an 86-year-old tortoise has said she "can't sleep" after he escaped from his Leicester home for the second time in a week.

Vera the tortoise first escaped from Wendy Krotochwil鈥檚 garden in Birstall on 23 August, before breaking out of his reinforced pen for a second time on Wednesday.

Ms Krotochwil, 58, said searching for Vera was like 鈥渓ooking for a needle in a haystack鈥�. She is now urging locals to check their gardens and is offering a cash reward to anyone that can find her pet.

大象传媒 Radio Leicester's Ellis Maddison has been to meet Wendy to find out how the search for missing Vera is going.