Sooty swept up for £1,000

An original Sooty TV puppet is set to fetch more than £1,000 at auction.

Tina Stewart decided to sell the item after the owner of the Sooty Show, Richard Cadell, told her of its value after meeting her and her six-year-old son Kyle after a live show at the Albert Halls in Stirling in April.

The Stewart family decided to part with the glove puppet as it had “just been sitting in a box for 40 years”.