Load of bull

Motorists heading home after the Bank Holiday weekend were held up by cows on the motorway.

The animals got loose from the horsebox they were travelling in on the anti-clockwise stretch of the M25 between Junction 5 and 6 after it was involved in an accident.

A Highways Agency spokesman said the motorway was closed in both directions because of fears the two bulls and a cow could have run across the central barrier and caused a serious accident on the other carriageway.

The two bulls were herded into a nearby field but the cow proved harder to catch and eventually a vet had to be called to sedate her on the hard shoulder!