‘There’s a deer trapped in an escalator’: muntjac rescued from Norwich M&S

“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.” The female muntjac deer was found wedged upside down between two glass panels next to the handrail of the ground-floor escalator of the shop, which – paradoxically – is located on Rampant Horse Street. “Somehow it got in between there [the glass panels] and got itself upside down with its foot caught in a bit of metal.” Hillside Animal Sanctuary was called to Marks & Spencer in Norwich after staff found a muntjac deer stuck within the glass barrier of an escalator. Photograph: Hillside Animal Sanctuary After being covered by an M&S blanket to try to calm her down, the deer was rescued by sanctuary worker Ian Haywood, who managed to reach into the space between the glass panels and free her. “Ian’s used to handling wild deer… we’re called [to rescue them] at least once every day, sometimes two or three times,” Valentine said. …