A BABY chick is safely recovering in its new home after being rescued from a busy road days before Easter.

The RSPCA was called after a women feared the chick had fallen off the back of a lorry in Haslingden Road, Rawtenstall, near the Provincial Grand Lodge.

Animal collection officer Shannon McGrath said the woman saved the chick from ‘certain’ death.

She said: “The woman scooped up the frightened little bird and confined him in a box before calling us.

“It was a really wet and windy day and was also quite foggy so it’s lucky she spotted the little bird otherwise he almost certainly would have been killed by another vehicle.”

After unsuccessful appeals were made to find its home, her colleague John Greaves took the chick home with him to Queensbury in Bradford.

He said: “The little chick, who I’ve named Rolo, was very cold and weak when he first arrived, I wasn’t sure if he was going to make it through the night.”

Mr Greaves has now purchased a friend for Rolo, another chick called Wispa from a farm in Accrington.