Spitting Image puppets stolen from car

Writers from the TV show Spitting Image were spitting mad yesterday after a thief made off with two of their puppets. The crook broke into puppet maker Simon Quinn's Volkswagen Golf and fled with two latex puppets worth more than pounds 4,000 each.

The puppets - two alien space beings called Org and Throx - appeared in Channel 4's The Strip Show. The 14-inch puppets were in the boot of Mr Quinn's car when it was broken into at Bedminster, Bristol.