A YOUNG girl from Yate has visited a country park in Olveston to see three little pigs she has named after beating hundreds to win a competition.

The three little pigs, or more accurately, micro-pigs, at the have been named Hickory, Dickory and Dock after five-year-old Grace Ryall suggested the name while she and her family visited Old Down Country Park.

Grace got to meet the pigs on a special visit to the park, and got to go into their pen with park manager Hayley Johnson to feed them.

"It was very fun to meet Hickory, Dickory and Dock,” said Grace.

“I like their really wet noses and their very tickly hair.

“I can’t wait to tell all my friends at school that I got to cuddle some micro-pigs!”

Grace’s mum Sarah said: “After Grace heard about the competition, she walked around all day trying to think, saying she didn’t know what she would call them. Then suddenly she had the idea.

“This is the girl who used to be afraid of her own shadow, but look at her now, she is so excited to see the micro-pigs.

Grace, who goes to Broadway Infants School in Yate, was presented with a certificate as well as an annual membership to the park.

Ms Johnson said: “We got the micro-pigs four weeks ago and thought it would be nice, if instead of naming them ourselves, we give our visitors the chance to name them.

“We had hundreds of entries for the competition and it was a lot of fun to go through all the different names that had been suggested.

“But when everyone was asked to pick their favourite, Grace’s entry was everyone’s first choice.

“The pigs have fit in really well at Old Down from day one, we have been taking them out on little walks to meet our visitors – they are real characters.”