The firefighters who rescued 18 piglets and two sows from a fire in Wiltshire have been thanked six months on with sausages made from their meat

A litter of piglets rescued from a barn fire have been served up as sausages to the firefighters who saved them.

Firefighters called to a farm at Milton Lilbourne, Wiltshire, in February managed to save 18 baby pigs and two grown sows from the flames that ripped through 60 tonnes of hay.

As a thank you the team were given “fantastic” sausages made from the litter, which they barbecued and ate this week. Posting pictures on social media, they said they were glad to finally “sample the fruits of [their] labour”.

Rachel Rivers, the farmer, waited six months before slaughtering them but said that they had been reared for meat and to be eaten. “I wanted to thank [the firefighters],” she said. “I promised them