Ref.: Western Daily Press
18 January 2007
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It's the wrong sort of swan
Weary train commuters were held up for more than half an hour after a group of swans staged a sit-in on a Somerset railway line.
Rush-hour travellers making their way home between Bristol and Weston-super-Mare were, perhaps, not surprised when their train ground to a halt at Nailsea. But when the conductor announced the delay was due to a pair of swans who were refusing to move off the tracks outside Worle station, near Weston, they were amazed.
Vanessa Pele, 33, of Weston, said: "The general consensus was that we've all heard some excuses in our time but that this one took the biscuit. But the conductor insisted it was true."
First Great Western called in the RSPB and two officers arrived to retrieve the large birds.
The swans were removed and taken away to be checked by animal experts.
