TO South Africa, where Vernon Swart of Stellenbosch has found Bella, a 6-year-old German Shepherd and terrier cross, with a knife poking from her head. The dog has foiled a robbery and been stabbed.

He says Bella attcked the robbers. He took his dog to hospital where he “literally had to push his knee against her head” to pull out the knife.

Bella has made full recovery.

Anorak wonders if the rioting in London, Birmingham and Manchester might have been ended earlier if the looters and thieves had harmed a pet…