FIREFIGHTERS in Ipswich were faced with an unusual task when they were dispatched to the Buttermarket Shopping Centre to free a pigeon which had become tangled in netting.

FIREFIGHTERS in Ipswich were faced with an unusual task when they were dispatched to the Buttermarket Shopping Centre to free a pigeon which had become tangled in netting.

A crew from Princes Street was called at 1.40pm today, freeing the feathered menace soon after.