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WHEN a man started eating this meal and saw the dead bird you could have knocked him down with a feather.

James Watson, 32, and wife Jasmine, 30, were tucking in to a candlelit steak dinner at home when they found the body of a 5in blackcap warbler which had come out of a £1.50 packet of Tesco salad.

Sales director James said yesterday: “We got off our stools and stood there in amazement for at least two minutes.”

Tesco has apologised to the couple, from Yate, Gloucestershire.

It said: “Both we and our suppliers have robust measures in place to prevent incidents such as this.”

The supermarket has offered a £200 gift card as compensation but James called the offer an “insult”.