LIGHTS adorning Workman Bridge in Evesham to celebrate 150 years since its construction may have to be pulled down after a swan became caught in cables holding up the lights this week.

Ironically, the incident happened during filming for BBC Midland's Today and was beamed out across the region on Monday evening.

"The crew were in the area filming a feature on swans," said town clerk Frank Green.

"They began filming one of the swans taking off but the bird flew into the cables and became caught up."

The bird was released and returned to the water and appeared to be unharmed. "As a result of the incident, the crew interviewed me and basically asked the question of whether the lights would remain up," added Frank.

"The lights are there from October until January every year and this year it was decided to leave them up as we are celebrating 150 years of the construction of the bridge.

"I'm not sure what we'll do but in light of the incident I'll take this to the members at the full council meeting on Monday."

He concluded: "As this is a one-off incident, we'll have to weigh it up. I have never had any complaints or reports of this sort before so I am sure it is a one-off but it will be discussed at the meeting before anything is decided."

The 150th anniversary of the bridge's construction was marked on March 12 with a service at the nearby Methodist Church, and the then mayor, Cllr Frances Smith laid a wreath under a portrait of the man responsible for the bridge, Henry Workman.