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A man has been stopped by police while driving with a parrot on his shoulder.

The bizarre incident happened on Thursday on the A470 in Powys.

In the build-up to the Royal Welsh Show, which gets underway in Builth Wells on Monday, police officers are taking extra precautions and carrying out vehicle checks on the A470.

They have been stopping heavy goods vehicles as part of the operation and one of them contained a driver and a very special friend.

The white parrot was sat on the driver’s shoulder as he made his way along the A470.

(Image: @BreconRPU)

PC Gareth Evans, from Dyfed-Powys Police, explained: “Ahead of the Royal Welsh Show next week, the Brecon Roads Policing Unit and Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency are conducting vehicle checks along the A470 between Builth Wells and Newbridge.

“We’re stopping HGVs, caravans and trailers in and around the area and when we stopped this particular vehicle we found that the driver had a parrot on his shoulder."

The driver was not punished for having the bird in the cabin with him, although he was found to have committed a “minor hours offence” meaning that he spent too many hours driving on the road in the past week.