RUSH-HOUR traffic on the M1 motorway outside Watford was held up by an unusual obstruction this evening - a swan on the carriageway.
Police held traffic on both carriageways and both slip roads of Junction 5 from 6.30pm, while they chased the swan, of the mute species, into the River Colne.
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