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Two young bears at a wildlife park made a beeline for a week's supply of honey after staging an escape from their enclosure.

Mish and Lucy, both four-year-old siblings, seized their moment of freedom at the Wildwood Trust’s site in Ottery St Mary in Devon on Monday afternoon.