THURLESTONE’S elusive winning Phone Box Bard has been found, with another limerick handed to the committee.

Kit Marshall of the Thurlestone Phone Box Committee said they had received another limerick on a scrap of paper which read: ‘The search has not gone too well, to locate the "Bard" Pimpernel, Didn’t think I would win, ’twould go straight in the bin, goes to show that you never can tell.’

The note was signed Allen O’S. Kit said: ‘His surname is gaelic for story-teller so we feel he had an unfair advantage’, but that the ‘authenticity has been verified’ and Allan will be off to the Village Inn to enjoy his prize.

Allan’s limerick was judged the best by David ‘Shep’ Shappard of BBC Radio Devon, but it was entered anonymously, so the prize of dinner for two at the pub went uncollected, until now. ?The competition, launched by the Phone Box Committee to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare in April received hundreds of entries from all over the South Hams and further afield.

The search is over, congratulations Allan.