Hogwash: Meeting Shugborough's 40 stone pigs Porkey & Matilda...

May 01, 2015, 08:44 AM

(Broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke, May 2015)

Do you have your bank holiday weekend planned out yet?

If you're still searching for something to do on Monday how does this sound for an idea...making friends with a forty stone pig who needs a bath?

That's exactly what you could get up to if you visit Shugborough.

The historic estate's working farm, run by Staffordshire County Council, is inviting visitors for hogwash.

Our Stafford reporter EMMA THOMAS has been to meet some of the rare breed residents getting ready for bath time...