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Here's the wing commander... an injured swallow chick getting some special help to learn to fly again.

Sasso, rescued seven months ago by staff at the Ramat Gan Animal Hospital in Israel, has been put in a harness so he can flap his wings.

It does make him look like one of those old model Spitfires that used to hang in boys’ bedrooms. But when he’s fully recovered he’ll forget all about looking like looking a bit of a tweet...