Wally the walrus blocks lifeboat crew on emergency rescue call-out

WALLY the walrus blocked a lifeboat crew on a rescue call-out.

The Arctic beast was resting on their slipway after feeding for days and at first refused to budge his 95st bulk.

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One volunteer, who had raced to the station, tried to shift him with a broom at Tenby in Pembrokeshire.

But tourist Martyn Sidwell, of Middlesbrough, said: “The walrus looked at him as if to say, ‘You’re having a laugh’.”

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The crewman returned with an air-horn. Martyn said: “Wally thought, ‘I’ve had enough’, and went into the sea.”

The three-year-old walrus has come from his Arctic home to the Welsh coast via Ireland.