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Fox lived in the Shard skyscraper at London Bridge


Romeo has now been released on the streets of Bermondsey

A fox has been discovered living at the top of the UK's tallest skyscraper.

The animal, named Romeo by staff, is thought to have entered the 288m (945ft) Shard building at London Bridge through the central stairwell.

It survived by eating scraps of food left by builders working on the incomplete structure.

The fox was captured and taken to Riverside Animal Centre in Wallington where it was fed and given a check-up.

Ted Burden, the centre's founder, said: "We explained to him that if foxes were meant to be 72 storeys off the ground, they would have evolved wings.

"We think he got the message and, as we released him back on to the streets of Bermondsey shortly after midnight on Sunday, he glanced at the Shard and then trotted off in the other direction."

The fox was found on the 72nd floor of the 80-storey building

Barrie Hargrove, cabinet member for transport, environment and recycling at Southwark Council, said: "Romeo has certainly been on a bit of a jaunt and proved rather elusive.

"But I'm glad our pest control officers were able to help out.

"He's obviously a resourceful little chap, but I'm sure he's glad the adventure is over and hopefully he'll steer well clear of skyscrapers in the future."

The Shard overtook Canary Wharf as the UK's highest tower block last year.

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we released him back on to the streets of Bermondsey shortly after midnight on Sunday,

A schoolboy had a shock when he returned from the playground to find a fox asleep in his bed.



Alexander West, nine, was stunned to see the daring baby fox snuggled in his duvet in his bedroom on the second floor of his home in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.

The youngster had left the back door of the townhouse open when he ran outside to play and the female fox had crept inside and made herself at home.



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Everyone has heard of the fox and the hound but it's not every day you see these cunning creatures hanging out with cats.

But for this injured fox cub an unlikely friendship with three kindly kittens may well have saved his life as they kept him warm during his recovery at Kent Wildlife Rescue centre.






The fox had been found with severe head injuries by side of a dual carriageway in Sidcup, Kent, after he was hit by a speeding car on April 11.

Spotted by a caring member of the public he was taken to the animal charity, given an intravenous drip and put in an induced coma for four days to avoid being killed by seizures.


While still unconscious, the fox was put into the same enclosure as three orphaned kittens which were found in a box at the bottom of a log pile near Leeds Castle, Kent.

They're renowned for their cunning, but this tiny fox cub clearly wasn't feeling too bright when he got trapped inside an overflow pipe.



Luckily for him, a canine cousin was on hand to lend a helping paw.

Rover, an 11-year-old collie cross Labrador, sniffed out the stricken cub while on a walk with his owner Steven Miller in the grounds of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh last Thursday.

He refused to let Mr Miller leave, alerting him to the 10-week-old fox's distress.

Animal rescue officer Steph Grant, from the Scottish SPCA, arrived to free the male cub and took him to the charity’s National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Clackmannanshire, where he was named Jacob.



Ms Grant said: 'The overflow pipe that Jacob had become trapped inside was extremely narrow and there is no way he would have been able to get himself out.

'Thankfully, I was able to rescue him from the tight spot he was in and, although frightened, he didn’t have any injuries.

'We don’t know how he managed to get himself into the pipe but one thing is for sure, Rover is a true canine hero for finding him.'

This adorable young fox cub made a not exactly clean escape from a spot of bother when he was hauled from a building site caked in mud.

The four-month-old fox was rescued from an urban building site near London's Canary Wharf, where he had been spotted in a deep muddy hole with no chance of escape.

And far from being just having muddy paws or a light covering of dust, the hapless animal was completely covered in a thick layer of dried sludge from head to foot.

However, after being saved by builders on the London site and taken to South Essex Wildlife Hospital in Essex, the fox received some food, water, and most importantly, a nice long scrub down.

He has not been christened 'Muddsey' by staff at the wildlife hospital as a tribute to the condition in which he was found.

Su Schwar who runs the hospital said 'it would certainly have had a pretty awful death if it hadn't been found, it was very cold and in shock but is fine now.

'We felt very sorry for him because he was completely caked and was absolutely petrified.

'The builders were doing some ground work on the site and there were a couple of holes left open.

'None of us knew how long he had been down that hole - it could have been all weekend.'

An animal rescuer saved the life of a fox cub that got its head stuck in a discarded tin... and almost plunged 30ft over a cliff in the process. Wildlife Aid Foundation veterinary nurse Lucy Kells rushed from the charity’s base in Leatherhead, Surrey, when a resident spotted the cub in their garden with its head trapped in the empty can. Despite its predicament, the cub was wandering around blindly and Lucy had to chase it into the bushes to catch it, unaware of the 30ft abyss a few inches away. She managed to clasp hold of a nearby tree with one hand and reach out for the sightless fox with the other.



‘She called out "I’ve got him" but it was at that moment I saw that immediately beyond her was a 30ft drop. ‘Lucy is absolutely terrified of heights, but she had been so focused on saving the fox cub that she had not even noticed that there was a sheer drop. ‘She had got hold of the cub with one hand and the branch with the other. Luckily I was in the nick of time to grab both Lucy and the cub and pull them back to safety.’



The can was removed with the help of wife cutters and the male fox cub was released unharmed.

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