Tuesday morning’s Hot News: Bandit the 6 month old baby bespectacled owl who was under flight training with L plates as a prisoner at Warwick Castle has escaped back home to Italy!Little Bandito, for whom Mr Morello’s pleading letters to the Castle and the Bishop of Warwick to liberate the disadvantaged avian appear at pages 87 to 89 of The Morello Letters, did a runner at midnight on Sunday, clearing UK airspace c 02.00 hours. He beat his ETA to Bologna Airport by 35 minutes, touching down at 6am local time where he thanked everyone involved in his escape and ate a mouse. See him relaxing below…
