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Rain doesn't stop family reunion

At least one happy family was singing in the rain at Wimbledon on Monday. A mother duck and her four fluffy ducklings have been reunited during a dramatic tournament. The family were first spotted last week waddling on to one of the outside courts when play was, yet again, interrupted by rain. The mother flew off in alarm when officials approached the ducks to shoo them off court, so animal protection officers stepped in and took the ducklings to a local sanctuary. The ducklings were then brought back to Wimbledon and released on the golf course opposite the All England Club.

A Wimbledon spokesman said: “There was a heart-warming reunion when the mother flew back and the family have now settled in well on the golf course.”

The spokesman was quick to insist that the appearance of duck on the menu at one of the tournament’s restaurants was “entirely coincidental.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .