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11:00am Tuesday 4th November 2008
A SWAN was burnt to death by a firework in what has been described as a sickening attack.
Officers from Wildlife Rescue were called to Broken Bridges, at Lower Bemerton, on Friday where they found the blackened body of the female bird.
They believe a firework was thrown at it.
"This was particularly upsetting," said Phil Groombridge from Wildlife Rescue. "This is one of the swans which gave us babies every year.
"We always get one or two disgusting attacks like this at this time of year - it's sickening."
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