FIREFIGHTERS were called to Hoddlesden to help retrieve a cat which had been missing for five days.

A crew from Darwen was called to Bayrne Street at 2.30pm yesterday after the owners of the cat spotted it under a shed behind the cottage property.

Posters of the black cat had been put up around the area, and the owners had been searching for it yesterday afternoon.

Firefighters worked to try to reach the cat, before it ran out of its own accord."The owners were really pleased, and contacted us later to say thank you."