YIPPEE! Your Page One story 'Sadie safe at last' (LET, February 10) was a real heart-warmer for me. I moved to a house near St Jude's Church, in Accrington Road, Blackburn, at the end of June 1999 and, therefore, had to walk along Bottomgate and Copy Nook to work in the town centre.

At that time, I noticed the dog now known as Sadie running around and assumed she had just been let out of her home for a run.

In December, I spoke to an old lady who had been feeding Sadie for three months and desperately wanted to catch her and take her home. From that time, I also fed Sadie. She was very grateful and ran out of shelter in the bushes to bark thanks and wag her tail.

On Christmas Eve, I phoned the RSPCA, police and council dog warden to have her caught and rehomed. All through the hail showers and storms of Christmas and New Year, I and other kind people fed her. In the New Year I phoned the dog warden again.

On the very morning of your story, I had contacted the dog warden and kennels to try and find out what had become of her. There was no information, so I was very low until your report put me on Cloud Nine.

New owner Jackie Dyer deserves Sadie and survivor Sadie deserves Jackie. I wish them heartfelt happiness in their future together.

SOPHIA JONES, Hozier Street, Blackburn.

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