A family's new truffle-hunting puppy is already worth its weight in gold after digging up 15 sovereign coins worth £6,000 on its first walk.

Adam Clark, 51, bought Ollie, a lagotto romagnolo, as a surprise for his daughter Alicia, nine, last month.

The breed is notorious for digging - especially for truffles - and on March 30 the young dog stumbled upon a small fortune during its first walk around the local fields.

To Mr Clark's delight and utter disbelief, Ollie instinctively dug up a total of 15 gold sovereign pieces likely dating back to the nineteenth century.

Mr Clark, from Blackpool, Lancashire, said: 'When we got him we thought he seemed special.

'Alicia was over the moon and we couldn't wait to take him out for his first walk around the gala fields.

'We'd literally been walking for around ten minutes when Ollie suddenly stopped and started frantically digging away at the soil.

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