A popular goose named after Ian McKellen‘s Lord of the Rings character has been stolen from a Kent village pond.
Gandalf had lived with his companion, named Ryan after the actor Gosling, in Basted Millpond near Borough Green for two years.
But last Tuesday the goose was bundled into the boot of a car at around 7pm, according to a witness.
A driver who had stopped in a lay-by in Basted Lane told villager Nigel Sheepwash he had seen a black estate car pull up by the pond before a man took Gandalf, an Embden goose.
He then reportedly drove off in the direction
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