THE highways officer at the centre of a llama drama has been reunited with the animal he helped to save.

Fred Bowman came across the llama on the C426 Aiskew to Bedale road as he was driving to some routine inspection work earlier this month. It was heading towards him with a trail of traffic behind it.

Making an educated guess, he headed for the petting farm Big Sheep Little Cow about half a mile away and asked staff if they were missing a llama.

Indeed they were. The llama, called Pria had been spooked by Flossie, a pig, taking a stroll in her field and had taken flight, abandoning her baby Nenyo and jumping all the fences.

Fred gave Henry Vallance, one of the farm’s senior tour guides, a lift back to Pria, who had made it almost as far as Leeming Bar with an even longer traffic queue behind her.

Henry managed to lasso a bucking and rearing Pria and after she calmed down she was taken back to the farm.

Fred returned to the farm this week to see how Pria was getting on - and found her happily re-united with her baby,