Doe d’oh! Wild deer rescued after escalator escapade in Norwich M&S

Lucy is ‘resting and stable’ at Hillside Animal Sanctuary in Norfolk, which rescued the female muntjac deer. Photograph: Hillside Animal Sanctuary

“There’s a deer trapped in an escalator” was not a phrase anyone at Hillside Animal Sanctuary in Norfolk was expecting to hear when staff at a Marks & Spencer department store in central Norwich called last Tuesday.

“In Norfolk, deers often get themselves in trouble,” said the sanctuary’s founder, Wendy Valentine. “They get stuck between walls and sheds, and in gates. It’s quite common for deer to get trapped … but ‘trapped in an escalator’ was a first.”