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Stolen Lexus returned to Graham Norton

Published: 19 January 2012

Graham Norton will no doubt be considering himself lucky after he was reunited with his Lexus hybrid 4x4.

The vehicle had been stolen from his East London home along with a number of items from inside his property, with the thieves making off with the car keys during the burglary.

Norton used his celebrity status to find the car, as he appealed to Twitter followers to keep an eye out for it, as well as listeners of his Radio 2 show.

The car was eventually found using its Tracker-operated Stolen Vehicle Recovery unit, no doubt saving the TV personality a considerable car insurance claim.

He commented: "I thought we might have foiled the thieves through the power of Twitter, but luckily with the Tracker device, we rescued my car from the hands of the thieves."

The system works like an electronic homing device, which has no visible aerial so thieves don't know it is there.