Firefighters have rescued a swan that became tangled up in a discarded fishing line.
The bird was in distress with the line caught around its neck and body on a lake near the Navigation Inn in Wigston this afternoon.
Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service’s specialist water rescue team retrieved the bird from the lake shortly after 2.15pm and left it in the hands of the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals officers.
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