Ferret keeper arrested
The annual Easter egg hunt at Huish Vicarage had to be called off midway through the event this morning after 3 escaped ferrets ran riot through the vicar's gooseberry bushes.
The Reverend Jess Pitman was saying grace and giving local children her blessing when one of the animals ran up her cassock.
She later told paramedics "I just closed my eyes and carried on praying".
One of the bellringers saw it all unfold from the nearby church tower. Edgar Ridgeway was up the belfry buffing his clapper. He said "Suddenly panic broke out and I heard screams. All I could see was the vicar running through her hollyhocks and 3 white ferrets chomping on her Easter eggs."
Two churchwardens were injured and the ferret keeper, from nearby Courtfield, is being questioned at Somerton Police Station.
The vicar still hasn't been found.
The vicar still hasn't been found.
One of the ferrets was later arrested in the hot tub at nearby Mary Coombes Health & Beauty.
