Photographs show seagull being rescued in Western Road Hove

A section of Western Road in Hove, outside the Tesco store, was closed this evening while emergency services worked to free the bird from netting on the top of a building.

Onlookers watched as a firefighter, holding the once trapped animal, brought the seagull back down to the ground using an aerial platform where colleagues helped to remove the netting.

The seagull didn’t look very happy (Image: The Argus) Firefighters were on the scene for less than an hour.

A spokeswoman from East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service said: “We were called at 5.43pm on July 17 to reports of a seagull stuck in netting at a premises on Western Road, Hove.

“Crews from Preston Circus attended, along with the aerial ladder platform, to release the seagull and left the scene at 6.33pm.”