LOL WTF???

"Swans fight it out in cathedral test"

If i didn't know that the Daily Telegraph was a real (and generally quite conservative/right-wing) paper, i would have thought that swan story was an entirely made up, slightly-subtler-than-the-Onion parody of British Tory racism...

Those nasty, vicious, "dirty fighting", immigrant BLACK swans, threatening our native British WHITE swans... and if they win, the CATHEDRAL will FALL DOWN!!!!1!!!

And we don't even know how they got into the country! They could be ILLEGALS! And, even worse, we're "prevented by law from intervening"! It's Political Correctness... gone MAD!!!!11!!!

/sarcasm

(Incidentally, i'm sure the "prevented by law from intervening" bit is false - Australian black swans, as a non-native species, would not be protected under any UK wildlife law, and i'm sure it would be perfectly legal to capture them and take them into captivity, say at a local zoo or bird sanctuary. And i'd be willing to bet that the "cathedral will fall down" legend is a load of old cobblers...)