Plastic ring removed from seal's neck after six years of tracking
Conservationists have successfully removed a plastic ring from the neck of a seal which they had been tracking for more than six years. The adult, male grey seal, named Commuter, was spotted off the north coast of Cornwall by conservationist Andy Rogers, a member of the Seal Research Trust, who alerted British Divers Marine Life Rescue. Members of the charity attended the scene on Sunday and removed a discarded paint tin seal from around the