A FEW slices of bread helped save a cygnet after it became tangled in a cord which had already killed a swan. RSPCA Inspector Stephen Greenhalgh managed to get the stricken bird out of the lake in Queen's Park, Blackburn, after firemen and passers by tempted it to the bank with bits of bread.
And Stephen also managed to avoid a nasty nip from the protective adult swans.
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