Saboteurs have ruined a campaign to unite homeless cats with new owners.

Five adverts appealing for people to love a new cat for Valentine's Day have disappeared from a park just hours after being put up.

The charity Cats Protection Brighton and Hove put the boards up at the Old Shoreham Road side in Hove Park.

Each featured a photograph of a homeless cat with a Valentine message appealing for cat lovers to adopt them and love them.

The A3 boards, on wooden spikes, were hammered into the ground in the park on Thursday night. By 9.30am on Friday morning all five had disappeared.

Beverley Avey, of Cats Protection Brighton and Hove, said: "We are quite upset about it because a lot of effort went into the boards.

"We feel very disappointed because Valentine's was an ideal opportunity to get some of our cats re-homed and we've wasted funds."

The charity has around 250 cats needing new homes and the council had given the organisation permission to put the posters in the park.

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