Gardener finds £1,000 of truffles

A gardener has unearthed 10 truffles, thought to be worth £1,000, in a garden in Plymouth. Forty-seven-year-old tree surgeon and gardener Chris Hunt dug up the truffles in Elaine Keith-Hill's garden when he cleared undergrowth around her several 150-year-old oak and beech trees. He said he knew immediately what they were. Ms Keith-Hill is now considering selling them.

Mr Hunt said: "I've never found anything like this in 10 years of digging up people's gardens." The highly-prized fungi are usually gathered between November and May using dogs or pigs, trained to find them by smell