THE wanderer returns! After ending up 350 miles from his Fareham home, mischievous moggie Gallagher has at last been reunited with his anxious owner.

Last week the Daily Echo reported how the wandering Burmese cat ended up in Stockton-on-Tees after vanishing five weeks ago.

But now the two-year-old feline is back on familiar territory at his East Street home and has been reunited with owner Rachel Pedley.

Rachel, a sales and customer care manager, said: "It's not the first time Gallagher has gone missing. He likes getting into cars and has even gone into people's houses and eaten their food.

"He's a very unusual cat. As soon as he walks out the door I wonder what he's going to get up to.

"Even though he had been missing for a long time I had a feeling that I would see him again, although it was a bit of a surprise when I was told he had been found so far away."

A member of the public spotted Gallagher roaming the streets of Stockton-on-Tees and took him to an RSPCA centre.

There he was scanned for a microchip which Rachel had had inserted after a previous escapade.

Staff were then able to make the discovery Gallagher had travelled 350 miles north.

Animal collection officer Kirsten Anderson said: "We think he must have climbed into a van or truck and accidentally hitched himself a lift up north."

It was Gallagher's adventurous antics that prompted Rachel to get him microchipped at The Stubbington Ark RSPCA centre.