A BACON lover is to be handed a piggy bank containing £1,000 after winning a competition.

Bus driver Kevin Longstaff, of Bishop Auckland, County Durham, realised his bacon butty was worth more than a few pence when a pack of Royal Crest Dutch Bacon won him a VIP trip to Amsterdam.

On February 23, Kevin will travel to Amsterdam where he will be treated to a dinner with 19 other winners, and then invited to smash open a piggy bank containing £1,000.

One of the pigs will also contain an invitation to go through to the next round, which involves the contestant smashing as many as 2,000 piggy banks, one of which will have £1m inside