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We wanted to share these pictures from one of our viewers, Ian Curtis, and a heart-warming story of a friendship between a fisherman and a cormorant in Brixham.

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When Ian asked the fisherman what he was doing, the angler explained he'd been fishing from the wall with his dog when a cormorant with a leg injury befriended him.

Realising the bird would be struggling to catch any fish, he decided to do it for him. Apparently the bird followed him for a few days wherever he went.

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The mystery angler has been revealed as 60-year-old Bill Naran, who said he took pity on the cormorant about two weeks ago after he saw it was injured.

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He said: "I could see it had an injured foot and couldn't feed itself, so I started feeding it some fish.

"The funny thing is it appeared at different locations I was fishing at, so it must have recognised me.

"But I haven't seen it for a few days now so I think it may be mission accomplished and the bird is fit enough to feed itself again."