2012 is the officially the year of the micro pig. No longer the domain of Paris ... A few weeks ago we brought you pictures of the adorable crew at Pennywell Farm in Devon. Now the same brood ...

The boar, named Blanket, has fathered 71 piglets so far this year at Kew Little Pigs, a micro pig petting farm in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. His escape artist tactics came to light when he broke ...

Mystic Marcus, a micro pig from Heage, Derbyshire, chose Belgium, Argentina, Nigeria and Uruguay. He did it by eating apples marked with the flags of all the other teams. He correctly predicted ...