A brewery is "delighted" to have had dozens of beer kegs returned after they were stolen by thieves earlier this month.

The small barrels, of which there were 43, belonged to Arundel Brewery in West Sussex but were recovered in Folkestone after a joint operation involving Kent Police.

The brewery shared the good news with its supporters on Facebook yesterday afternoon.

It said: "We got our kegs back!

"Thanks to the incredible work of Keg Watch, Sussex Police, Kent Police and all of you incredible people who shared our post and gave us information, we are delighted to have recovered the kegs that were stolen from the brewery earlier this month.

"They were recovered at Folkestone, where they were going to be illegally exported out of the country."

It added: "As an independent, family business that has been closed for most of the last year, it was far from ideal for us to lose them and we are overjoyed to have them back.

"We are enormously appreciative to everyone who helped spread the word, it just goes to show that social media can sometimes achieve incredible things."

The theft happened in the early hours of Friday, April 2 and the brewery's initial post appealing for help was shared 3,000 times.

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