PIGEONS have found a way back onto Fisherton Street Bridge after a lorry hit it and damaged the wire netting.

The birds are making the most of the situation since they were removed last month when the bridge was pigeon-proofed in a £16k project.

City councillor Matt Dean, who oversaw the bridge work, said: “The bridge is periodically subject to bridge strikes.

“Quite soon after the work was completed, a lorry hit it.

“The contractor is due to come back in four weeks time to repair it and we will be contacting the insurers of the lorry company which hit it. What we are not going to do is, having solved the problem, let lorries damage it and get away with it.”

The lorry strike is understood to have cost between £1,500 and £2,000 damage to the pigeon proofing.