A lorry driver was an accomplice to a real-life Chicken Run after making a 100-mile trip with a live HEN under his bonnet.

The trucker only heard it clucking when he arrived at an Asda depot near Chepstow, Monmouthshire.

It had been sitting on his engine since he left Staffordshire.

Transport clerk Alex Viljoen said: "The driver was afraid to pick the bird up. She was a bit warm and there was oil on her feathers, but she seemed quite happy."

Nicknamed Paxo, she was taken to vet Caroline Marlow and given a clean bill of health - then laid an egg. Caroline plans to keep her but change her name to Sally.

She said Paxo may have been egged on by the film, adding: "We think she was copying Chicken Run and trying to escape."