'Re-Vamp' on Hold: Lodging bats at historic Staffordshire pub...

Apr 20, 2016, 09:26 AM

(Broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke, April 2016)

When you do some decorating it always seems that there is something that will delay you - bubbles in the wallpaper, bits of plaster that fall off when you don't expect it, running out of paint, that sort of thing....

But for a group of people doing up the Red Lion pub in Bradley (PRO: BRAYD-LEE) it's a colony of bats that have put a stop to their refurbishment.

It's because the Bats are a protected species so they are having to fit their plans around them....

BBC Radio Stoke's EMMA THOMAS has been for a climb up to the attic...