THEY looked like tramps, acted like tramps and so were treated as down and outs as they staggered around the streets of Teignmouth.

Suspicious police checked them out, and they were refused entry to a pub on New Year’s Eve.

But the pair were in fact a couple of respectable middle-aged local ladies garbed in fancy dress.

Their scruffy persona fooled everybody, even their best friends.

Other revellers out on the town, felt so sorry for them, they even donated cash.

- Do you recognise them? See Friday’s Teignmouth Post and all will be revealed.