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(( Hamster found driving toy racing car on seafront ))

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A hamster was found driving in a toy dragster racing car on the seafront.

The rodent startled day-trippers on the seafront at Cleveleys, near Blackpool.

He was handed in to police and is now at a Fylde animal sanctuary where he has been nicknamed Speedy.

PC Quentin Allen told the Blackpool Evening Gazette there was amazement when the hamster was handed in at Cleveleys police station.

The police log records: "A member of the public has handed in a hamster in a hot rod racing car."

PC Allen told the paper: "It was a proper toy racing car with a hamster wheel in the middle and as the hamster runs it operates the car.

"You can just imagine a nice, sunny day on Cleveleys Prom, eating your chips and then this thing goes whizzing past.

"It was quite amusing in here because whenever we tried to put Speedy down on the front desk he kept whizzing off trying to escape."

Speedy was handed over to the Fylde branch of the RSPCA in Fleetwood.He was then moved to the "high-security" Charnwood House Boarding Kennels in Marton.

Nancy Williams, from Charnwood House told the paper: "We think somebody must have been playing with him outside and they have forgotten about him and he has just taken off."