Residents of a sleepy Yorkshire village are battling with the council over plans to evict a pair of beloved geese from a local pond.
White goose Lucy Goose has been sharing Townend Pond, located off the village High Street in Stillington, North Yorkshire, with local ducks for two years.
Recently, Lucy - who is owned by local resident Molly Dickman - even found love with a male Chinese goose brought in to keep her company.
But locals' feather were ruffled after parish councillors decided the geese must be removed over road safety concerns.
At a Stillington Parish Council meeting held on July 2, councillors decided the paired geese would be offered back to their owners or re-homed at a different pond 'in the interests of road safety'.
