Former Marine Paul ‘Pen’ Farthing has issued a desperate plea for help from outside Kabul airport, where he and his team are stuck with 173 animals waiting for a flight home. The founder of animal ...

Pen Farthing is "on his way home now with his dogs and cats" after a charter plane picked them up from Kabul, his spokesperson has said. British troops loaded up dozens of rescue animals owned by the ...

The defence secretary has complained that British military efforts to evacuate people from Kabul have been "diverted" because of the attempts to rescue animals being cared for by a former British ...

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has issued a terse response to backers of a Brit who is trying to fly more than 100 cats and dogs out of Kabul. The top Tory accused some of the animal rights campaigners ...

Mr Farthing has also been criticised for leaving on a plane that was empty apart from his animals. He says all of the pets apart from Ewok, his rescue Pomeranian, were in the cargo, where people are ...

As a former Royal Marine, Pen Farthing is used to stressful situations. But the events of the last few months would have pushed anyone to their limits. Fifteen years ago, he set up the animal shelter ...